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# How to pronounce "bent over" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/bɛntɒvɛr/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **ben·to·ver**

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

Listen to native speakers pronounce "bent over" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "us. cleanliness, hard work, a team player bent over and I'm sure that gets murder on your your back and your shoulders and we're lucky enough here we have a"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 32:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Wlc2TevYM&t=1935s)

### Example 2
> "bent over towards the nettles. The plant had sprung upward. The branch had inclined. That which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that which expands"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 174:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzeNZ4hngGk&t=10465s)

### Example 3
> "bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions; and fifty feet below the doorstep I could see the still"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 58:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wExK37zBmX8&t=3536s)

### Example 4
> "I bent over backwards to prove that I was not angry, that I was not a threat."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnybJZRWipg&t=274s)

### Example 5
> "The bent over posture of the scorcher was thought to cause a permanent hunch called chiphosis bicyclisterum or, familiarly, cyclist's stoop."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKrtmJQWgGE&t=1322s)

### Example 6
> "He bent over and picked it up."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 14:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KEdYXjsW1c&t=853s)

### Example 7
> "God bless her soul, she lived to 97 years old. Wow. But at that age, she was literally a right angle. She was literally she had a walker. She was completely bent over at that walker. Could hardly get herself back up. She had lost all of her extension. So, she could not rotate at all. And again, functionally, it's the most important movement you can make, I think, is to be able to rotate through your torso to be able to do things. So, I think that"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 67:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epAVydG6IxI&t=4031s)

### Example 8
> "prison she'd come back you're looking at the objective evidence of somebody that is bent over double having timed waves of pain has a swollen stomach and hasn't had a period for six to seven months"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyM_ODc6208&t=296s)

### Example 9
> "Little Fred comes into the kitchen, and Mabel, who he has only seen as smiling and helpful and happy, is bent over the sink, and she's crying, and she's sobbing inconsolably. And little Fred comes over to her and says, "Mabel, what is wrong?" Mabel turns, and she says, "They killed him! They killed our leader. They killed Martin Luther King."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 12:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdJGcffe9I&t=751s)

### Example 10
> "Other people started to believe in what we were doing, and actually offered us hangar space, donated hangar space to us. And then the Georgetown Airport Authority was bent over backwards to help us with anything we needed. So now we had a hangar space to work in, and prototypes to demo with."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx1cyKs3ysg&t=392s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [bent](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/bent), [over](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/over)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "bent over" correctly?
"bent over" is pronounced `/bɛntɒvɛr/`. Syllable breakdown: **ben·to·ver**.

### What does "bent over" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "bent over" in daily English.

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