--- title: "How to pronounce \"bumping up\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"bumping up\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/oYQh1ZNkC70/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/bumping-up" --- # How to pronounce "bumping up" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/bʌmpɪngʌp/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **bum·pin·gup** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "bumping up" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "it's a provocative theory largely untestable but when you're reading ancient greek and latin for that matter you can't read it very long without bumping up against these discarnate entities they're everywhere um and they they survived they they persist across time which is even stranger not just in the form of all the things my daughters like like fairies and gnomes and elves but" - **Watch at 97:32**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQh1ZNkC70&t=5852s) ### Example 2 > "But if your head gets hit or shook around or just moves too fast, your brain can shift inside its protective casing bumping up against the sides of your skull. When that happens, the fragile neurons that make up your brain can stretch or even tear." - **Watch at 2:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iaj5966HV4&t=120s) ### Example 3 > "iran correspondent teresa Trumper at erase our good to have you in the studio one year after the u. s. pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal Tehran is now bumping up its uranium stockpile what message is Tehran sending with this move well as you've said it's been years and some Ultron pulled out of the nuclear agreement and so far Iran has complied with it even though it didn't get any benefits from that and the economic sanctions that were imposed in the past" - **Watch at 1:49**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1yrUMQLAX0&t=109s) ### Example 4 > "as I said I think our economy is driven by the amount of risk its capacity for risk-taking for example in a recession why does the economy pull back it starts bumping up against its capacity for risk-taking and it dials back risk-taking both consumption and investment to compensate for that if we had an infinite amount of equity we would have no uh economic Cycles because no one would have any fear of of taking risks then what do you make of the" - **Watch at 3:29**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bho-2ge29gA&t=209s) ### Example 5 > "night absolutely uh 100% I did felt threatened um you know they rans sacked my room uh 40 of them in there wouldn't give me any personal space whatsoever bumping up against you sleep deprivation um going into the third day uh the local government which is about the only thing they did was got involved and spoke to all the employees there that said hey you can't you can't do that type of stuff so it improved a little bit after that so but at the beginning yes uh and" - **Watch at 1:16**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAuI4D-kWoU&t=76s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "bumping up together in bed like spoons, placed together in the silver chest." - **Watch at 21:55**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Tbcg9ltrU&t=1315s) ### Example 7 > "are bumping up against the music writing in a in not always a good way, right? So we're having some problems with that" - **Watch at 39:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuQeJeILHcE&t=2381s) ### Example 8 > "10% of the world pulp Supply you've been CEO for a long time have you ever seen the pulp Market this tight before well it's interesting uh in about 1995 pulp was bumping up against $1,000 a ton near the end of '95 we did the Scott merger right around then right by April of 1996 pulp was back down to $600 a ton so I don't know if that's going to happen this time but I sure hope that these situations in Chile and Finland are short term and and turn around later in" - **Watch at 2:15**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQkGP5yiQs&t=135s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "maybe bumping up it up a little but if there's an excess in positive emotionality kind of attenuating it or curbing it down a little to find that" - **Watch at 15:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91tFHYm9qso&t=935s) ### Example 10 > "And it's bumping up against the quantum principle." - **Watch at 20:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMxmDPDyQ7o&t=1248s) ## How to Pronounce "bumping up" - **Syllables**: bum · pin · gup - **IPA**: `/bʌmpɪngʌp/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [bumping](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/bumping) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “bumping up”? “bumping up” is pronounced /bʌmpɪngʌp/ (bum · pin · gup). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “bumping up”? “bumping up” has 3 syllables: bum · pin · gup. ### How can I hear “bumping up” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “bumping up” with synchronized subtitles. 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