--- title: "How to pronounce \"build down\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"build down\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/gpDCO0rvr44/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/build-down" --- # How to pronounce "build down" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/bʌɪlddɒwn/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **bu·il·ddown** ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - A systematic, gradual reduction in the number of something (especially nuclear weapons), normally by destroying more than are built. ### Example Sentences - "build down and then build up for another commercial break." - "build down that uh has been undertaken with any serious uh intention of" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (12 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "build down" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "So dear writer, what writer wouldn't like to write a longer series, a series where he or she doesn't have to constantly recap and build up for the commercial break and then build down and then build up for another commercial break. But, in fact, can write as if they're writing chapters of a book that people could read consecutively." - **Watch at 3:14**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDCO0rvr44&t=194s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "build down that uh has been undertaken with any serious uh intention of" - **Watch at 88:49**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaiqpVsF4rM&t=5329s) ### Example 3 > "margins I can put my prices up or I could just cut back on the hours I give people perhaps not expand my business perhaps not hire as many people and that is a problem when you're trying to get the welfare build down and get people back into work there's all those things to think about in the background leaving of course is all of this going on there external forces that you can't really control and we've had enough of it I mean know 5 years on from covid right" - **Watch at 21:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nVK8FYKB0&t=1271s) ### Example 4 > "for for a very simple reason what when is enough enough anything above a few hundred is probably enough they have agreed to build down to, 1500 each um that may not be enough for the Russian uh military M because of the V" - **Watch at 30:40**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGBHIOaRw6g&t=1840s) ### Example 5 *Accent: AUS* > "it's ugly but it brings your electricity build down because if that if that continues then we're going to stay in" - **Watch at 51:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf5xUfTJprk&t=3094s) ### Example 6 > "In the moment we’re talking a lot about reform and the potential now to build down the carceral state and we’ve ignored or overlooked places where it’s rapidly growing. And so what we’re seeing now is law enforcement and immigration enforcement are colliding or converging where they used to be quite separate systems." - **Watch at 0:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8ryWEtv_5w&t=4s) ### Example 7 > "vision is more dream or reality well m are more dream than reality um no they will build down for for for a very simple reason what when is enough enough anything above a few" - **Watch at 30:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGBHIOaRw6g&t=1824s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "us a number of 7,000 so there has been a so-called build down but it's not a" - **Watch at 88:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaiqpVsF4rM&t=5323s) ### Example 9 > "and in trying to have sort of grand theories of the world one of my principles in building Wolfram Alpha was not to start from a grand theory of the world that is not to kind of start from some global ontology of the world and then try and build down into all these different domains but instead to work up from having you know hundreds then thousands of domains that actually work whether they're you know information about cars or information about sports" - **Watch at 9:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7kX7BuHSFI&t=557s) ### Example 10 > "adding up knowledge panels, that we spend time making sure are linguistically and culturally appropriate. We tend to start globally, with global authoritative groups like the World Health Organization or the National Health Service or CDC, and then we begin to build down to more focused jurisdictions. On other platforms that we have like YouTube, we've built out special channels where we do, because it's a platform and we can host content," - **Watch at 17:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMgKdhkaog&t=1039s) ## How to Pronounce "build down" - **Syllables**: bu · il · ddown - **IPA**: `/bʌɪlddɒwn/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [build](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/build), [down](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/down) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “build down”? “build down” is pronounced /bʌɪlddɒwn/ (bu · il · ddown). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “build down”? “build down” has 3 syllables: bu · il · ddown. ### What does “build down” mean? A systematic, gradual reduction in the number of something (especially nuclear weapons), normally by destroying more than are built. ### How can I hear “build down” used in real sentences? This page has 12 real-world video examples of “build down” with synchronized subtitles. 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