--- title: "How to pronounce \"black cap\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"black cap\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/49wmajcf6-k/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/black-cap" --- # How to pronounce "black cap" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ˈblækˌkæp/` - **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/37/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blackcap.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blackcap.wav.mp3) - **Syllable Breakdown**: **blac·kcap** - **Parts of Speech**: noun - **NOUN**: A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown. - **NOUN**: Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus). - *Example*: "Other times the cat would run off to the hunting grounds, either the swamps or the Astroni, and when the hunters shot down an oriole or a great tit or a blackcap [translating capofuscolo], she collected them and presented them to the king with the same message." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (13 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "black cap" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "So his head had been badly crushed by a heavy weapon. He also had a long, clean cut on his thigh, as if his thigh, that's the upper part of his leg, had been cut by a knife. But Straker Black cap, red jacket. Duke of Balmoral's Iris, so Duke of Barrowmole. Duke of Balmoral is the owner, Iris is the horse." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 115:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49wmajcf6-k&t=6949s) ### Example 2 > "euros per month you can own three decent pairs of shoes and here are the three essentials you want first black cap toe Oxford classic of classic absolutely timeless for nearly every occasion number two Darby brogues why not in brown a bit more the sporty side anyway by the way" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2IqTV43zvo&t=82s) ### Example 3 > "fur or a black cap on a visit of condolence on the first day of the Moon" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 84:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qaKd0kMHAs&t=5078s) ### Example 4 > "round the collar and a small flat black cap about the size of a saucer completes" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 30:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH7AQAxq1ac&t=1815s) ### Example 5 > "dropping into a whisper was silent again the judge assumed the black cap and the Prisoner stood still with the same air and gesture a woman in the gallery" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 411:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bShyDRzqNg0&t=24719s) ### Example 6 > "on the crown of his head a flat black cap about the size of a saucer which was not useful as a covering it being of such scanty Dimensions neither was it" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 30:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH7AQAxq1ac&t=1830s) ### Example 7 > "than once happened that the judge in the black cap pronounced his own doom as certainly as the prisoners had even died before him. For the rest, the old Bailey" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 20:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd8vr87k6Fc&t=1210s) ### Example 8 > "Hours later, ABC announced it would pull the show for the foreseeable future. Kimmel himself, seen here in the black cap, was whisked away from the studio, leaving audience members to be turned away from Wednesday night's recording. The show was about to start in like 45 minutes and we were still like all outside. So, it was very like suspicious that something was going on. Uh, but we" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFLqaCydI74&t=92s) ### Example 9 > "Hours later, ABC announced it would pull the show for the foreseeable future. Kimmel himself, seen here in the black cap, was whisked away from the studio, leaving audience members to be turned away from Wednesday night's recording. The show was about to start in like 45 minutes and we were still like all outside. So, it was very like suspicious that something was going on. Uh, but we" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvfLXHUo48Y&t=85s) ### Example 10 > "Colonel Ross's Silver Blaze, black cap, red jacket. You what? Duke of Balmoral's Isis, yellow and black stripes. Lord Singleford's Rasper, purple cap, black sleeves." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 114:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49wmajcf6-k&t=6847s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [black](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/black), [cap](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/cap) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "black cap" correctly? "black cap" is pronounced `/ˈblækˌkæp/`. Syllable breakdown: **blac·kcap**. ### What does "black cap" mean in context? 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