--- title: "How to pronounce \"breaking a lance\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"breaking a lance\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/CBuokSFSdn4/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/breaking-a-lance" --- # How to pronounce "breaking a lance" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/brɪːkɪngælɪns/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **brea·kin·ga·lance** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (4 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "breaking a lance" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "akka is less popular now than Merkel is German still like Merkel she's also less known and she's struggling in bid now but but that's what they're gonna work on is basically give her an internship because you're breaking a lance here for angular Merkel and saying that she's she's still pretty much on course but at the top of the show we had you saying Angela Merkel is at the helm of her caretaker government with no residual ambition I was always talking to her" - **Watch at 11:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBuokSFSdn4&t=701s) ### Example 2 > "mean first of all we should phone the greens and tell them that their time is over the but maybe that is not quite the case because I mean what you're saying is uh you you or at least your you're breaking a lance for people who are against things yes it's easy to be against things yes I know um and and" - **Watch at 15:39**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMYl1w09Wz4&t=939s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "second-- he even struggles for primacy, showing perhaps too much love of contention and breaking a lance with him, as it were, but deriving some" - **Watch at 37:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vui_MuI0HU0&t=2272s) ### Example 4 > "problems it's a it's a modern Army there are problems and they will be solved you have problems in the other armies also what I don't like would not agree with is that the German Army is the only Army in Europe with problem it's still a modern Army and still one of the best armies uh in NATO okay breaking a lance for the bundes fair there but yeah I believe in that I mean the backdrop to all this is the tensions we are seeing at the moment in eastern Ukraine the" - **Watch at 2:06**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY6Vcho9Uto&t=126s) ## How to Pronounce "breaking a lance" - **Syllables**: brea · kin · ga · lance - **IPA**: `/brɪːkɪngælɪns/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [breaking](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/breaking), [lance](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lance) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “breaking a lance”? “breaking a lance” is pronounced /brɪːkɪngælɪns/ (brea · kin · ga · lance). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “breaking a lance”? “breaking a lance” has 4 syllables: brea · kin · ga · lance. ### How can I hear “breaking a lance” used in real sentences? This page has 4 real-world video examples of “breaking a lance” with synchronized subtitles. 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