---
title: "How to pronounce \"apocalypses\" in English | SayItVid"
description: "Learn how to say \"apocalypses\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid."
image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/5J6q1J09oNw/hqdefault.jpg"
url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/apocalypses"
---


# How to pronounce "apocalypses" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/æpɒkælɪpsɛs/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **a·po·ca·ly·pses**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "apocalypses" in real conversation:

### Example 1
*Accent: US*
> "I'll come back to that in a minute. Apocalypses also tend to be what I call morally dualistic. They tend to divide humankind into two mutually exclusive groups; the righteous which is always a tiny minority, and the wicked,"
- **Watch at 25:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6q1J09oNw&t=1526s)

### Example 2
*Accent: US*
> "Apocalypses also generally depict a judgment of the individual dead, followed by everlasting life or"
- **Watch at 26:50**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6q1J09oNw&t=1610s)

### Example 3
*Accent: US*
> "apocalypses. I'm talking about viruses."
- **Watch at 0:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8hx_ORo9XU&t=19s)

### Example 4
*Accent: US*
> "themselves apocalypses, but they show influences from this kind of world view and this kind of narrative view of history and the cosmology."
- **Watch at 8:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aBrXam36JE&t=506s)

### Example 5
*Accent: US*
> "Often apocalypses seem to have served as a form of cultural resistance."
- **Watch at 8:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aBrXam36JE&t=514s)

### Example 6
> "We have three other Apocalypses claimed to be written by Peter."
- **Watch at 20:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF3nu4cYC78&t=1208s)

### Example 7
> "As time went on, their ideas got like weirder and weirder. They started worrying about apocalypses. Like killer robots. We need to stop AI from killing us."
- **Watch at 1:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx0c0LcKoNE&t=72s)

### Example 8
*Accent: US*
> "We have apocalypses attributed to various other Old Testament characters, so that the idea, as we saw with Daniel, is it's written at one time but"
- **Watch at 1:47**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aBrXam36JE&t=107s)

### Example 9
*Accent: US*
> "The earliest apocalypses, Daniel was talking about the Greeks and Syrians, the Greco-Syrian Empire."
- **Watch at 9:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aBrXam36JE&t=566s)

### Example 10
*Accent: US*
> "All our earliest apocalypses date to the period of the Seleucid Empire and they all emerge from the Empire's core territories-- Babylonia, Iran, and Judea."
- **Watch at 37:20**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-k-Lp4I0U&t=2240s)


## How to Pronounce "apocalypses"

- **Syllables**: a · po · ca · ly · pses
- **IPA**: `/æpɒkælɪpsɛs/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Words

### Word Forms
[apocalypse](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/apocalypse)

### Related Terms
[postapocalypse](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/postapocalypse)

### Related Concepts
[revelation](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/revelation), [cataclysm](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/cataclysm), [catastrophe](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/catastrophe), [holocaust](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/holocaust), [armageddon](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/armageddon)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “apocalypses”?
“apocalypses” is pronounced /æpɒkælɪpsɛs/ (a · po · ca · ly · pses). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “apocalypses”?
“apocalypses” has 5 syllables: a · po · ca · ly · pses.

### What does “apocalypses” mean?
third-person singular simple present indicative of apocalypse

### How can I hear “apocalypses” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “apocalypses” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


```json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "WebPage",
      "@id": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/apocalypses#webpage",
      "url": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/apocalypses",
      "name": "How to pronounce \"apocalypses\" in English | SayItVid",
      "description": "Authentic native video pronunciation clips, phonetic IPA transcriptions, and subtitles for the English word \"apocalypses\".",
      "inLanguage": "en-US",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@type": "WebSite",
        "@id": "https://sayitvid.com/#website",
        "name": "SayItVid",
        "url": "https://sayitvid.com"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "DefinedTerm",
      "@id": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/apocalypses#term",
      "name": "apocalypses",
      "inDefinedTermSet": {
        "@type": "DefinedTermSet",
        "name": "SayItVid English Pronunciation Dictionary",
        "url": "https://sayitvid.com/browse"
      },
      "description": "third-person singular simple present indicative of apocalypse",
      "pronunciationPhonetic": "/æpɒkælɪpsɛs/"
    },
    {
      "@type": "LearningResource",
      "@id": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/apocalypses#learning-resource",
      "name": "Pronunciation Guide for \"apocalypses\"",
      "description": "Pronunciation practice and listening training for \"apocalypses\".",
      "educationalUse": "Pronunciation and Listening Practice",
      "inLanguage": "en-US",
      "learningResourceType": "Video Clip"
    },
    {
      "@type": "VideoObject",
      "@id": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/apocalypses#video-5J6q1J09oNw",
      "name": "How to pronounce \"apocalypses\" in English - Native Speaker Video Example",
      "description": "Watch a native English speaker pronounce \"apocalypses\" in real conversation: \"I'll come back to that in a minute. Apocalypses also tend to be what I call morally dualistic. They tend to divide humankind into two mutually exclusive groups; the righteous which is always a tiny minority, and the wicked,\"",
      "thumbnailUrl": [
        "https://img.youtube.com/vi/5J6q1J09oNw/maxresdefault.jpg",
        "https://img.youtube.com/vi/5J6q1J09oNw/hqdefault.jpg"
      ],
      "uploadDate": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "contentUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6q1J09oNw&t=1526s",
      "embedUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/5J6q1J09oNw?start=1526",
      "transcript": "I'll come back to that in a minute. Apocalypses also tend to be what I call morally dualistic. They tend to divide humankind into two mutually exclusive groups; the righteous which is always a tiny minority, and the wicked,",
      "hasPart": {
        "@type": "Clip",
        "name": "Pronunciation of \"apocalypses\"",
        "startOffset": 1526,
        "endOffset": 1530,
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6q1J09oNw&t=1526s"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "FAQPage",
      "@id": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/apocalypses#faq",
      "mainEntity": [
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "How do you pronounce “apocalypses”?",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "“apocalypses” is pronounced /æpɒkælɪpsɛs/ (a · po · ca · ly · pses). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation."
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "How many syllables are in “apocalypses”?",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "“apocalypses” has 5 syllables: a · po · ca · ly · pses."
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "What does “apocalypses” mean?",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "third-person singular simple present indicative of apocalypse"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "How can I hear “apocalypses” used in real sentences?",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "This page has 15 real-world video examples of “apocalypses” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken."
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```
