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# How to pronounce "broken even" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/brɒkɛnɛvɛn/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **bro·ke·ne·ven**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (14 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "broken even" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "conventional materials its flexibility and negligible weight means that it cannot be easily cracked or broken even if it is bent or dropped on the floor printable Electronics like this could be used for much more serious purposes in the future for example by printing these inks onto clothing it could be possible to embed heart"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbx0spQKMFQ&t=60s)

### Example 2
> "would have broken even. And I think that was the other lesson that sometimes, when something isn't working, having that ability to be strong enough and cut your losses."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 45:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6_u4ZtigJE&t=2716s)

### Example 3
> "own economy so I think we're going to see she straddling a line still um but still the message that they want to send is that Beijing and Moscow their ties have not been broken even if um on coasters scrutiny they might be strained and I wonder if you see a demonstration of this at the SEO meeting itself and the reason I ask is because we heard Secretary General John Ming saying that the SEO represents a new type of international relations the Kremlin has"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 9:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3hdvG2nSsY&t=585s)

### Example 4
> "could have broken even on it."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 44:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L03bZwJpbPQ&t=2653s)

### Example 5
> "of November 1938 but we should also remember the silence that rained over the whole of Germany and was not really broken even in the churches we have to take responsibility for that and be ashamed"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 18:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dudVMptuvZk&t=1121s)

### Example 6
> "They were out of control. Some of them were drunk but not all of them they they burned cars. They they destroyed shops in my street. This morning everybody has a hangover because the windows have been broken even though many of the shops and basement basement and and ground floor windows were blocked off with plywood and it looks like not the scene of a celebration it looks like a scene of"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7HyW7PEp2w&t=173s)

### Example 7
> "come, it's broken even that record."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ODxwDF2Ic&t=710s)

### Example 8
> "in the cotton fields of East Texas, and whose skin seemed to be burnt a creaseless noble brown, just like the clay of East Texas, and whose hopes and dreams for what life might become outside of East Texas had sometimes been bent and broken even further than their backs. Yes, these men and women were the stars of the show for me."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsrxbqFo41k&t=181s)

### Example 9
> "them out he's not making any money he said he's not he hasn't broken even yet there's almost no econ economy there to sell to but in his mind making the"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 54:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx4Ii5tueDo&t=3292s)

### Example 10
> "And we did it, and we broke even, which was even-- no other Gay Games since the first couple had broken even."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekuufrldewU&t=1340s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

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

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "broken even" correctly?
"broken even" is pronounced `/brɒkɛnɛvɛn/`. Syllable breakdown: **bro·ke·ne·ven**.

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

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