--- title: "How to pronounce \"caught a cold\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"caught a cold\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/aKVsaVBbGQ0/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/caught-a-cold" --- # How to pronounce "caught a cold" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/kɔːghtækɒld/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **caug·hta·cold** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (13 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "caught a cold" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "organic way. During cold season, they would have people sit in a lab, with their feet in buckets of cold water, and then compare who caught a cold, just in the next month of running around Wales, to the control group that was not sitting with their feet in cold water. And they found a pretty strong causal link." - **Watch at 12:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKVsaVBbGQ0&t=747s) ### Example 2 > "So I caught a cold on the plane yesterday coming back." - **Watch at 26:40**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOzsDItW7Bs&t=1600s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "You might have caught a cold from your coworkers, or just cheered too loudly at the big game last night." - **Watch at 0:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOwb7jNQL8U&t=4s) ### Example 4 > "grind me down you know I need to move forward with my life you know I shouldn't have to be fundraising for myself to get the right legs that I need to to walk because I caught a cold two years ago more than probably more than almost anything is not been able to take her for a walk hate" - **Watch at 7:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjCcjOvj9Y&t=468s) ### Example 5 *Accent: UK* > "much sense as announcing how many people caught a cold in the United States uh each year. All crimes are not created" - **Watch at 7:06**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4klRF7vFFg&t=426s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "house and Edgar neglected her that she had caught a cold with the doors being left open and we let the Parlor fire go out on purpose to Vex her" - **Watch at 256:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzbOAR7N5WU&t=15368s) ### Example 7 *Accent: UK* > "with modeling and under sound we had we caught a cold there are some issues that have only come up since we've had full" - **Watch at 1:07**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqc5natH8vk&t=67s) ### Example 8 > "perhaps refrigerate animal flesh brilliant idea you the refrigerator 300 years 400 years before it was invented as a consequence of this he caught a cold but and he was some distance from home so he went to the house of a local Aristocrat friend only in Chelsea somewhere but the the the bed was down" - **Watch at 0:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JTRyltugMQ&t=43s) ### Example 9 > "I've been thinking a lot about the world recently and how it's changed over the last 20, 30, 40 years. Twenty or 30 years ago, if a chicken caught a cold and sneezed and died in a remote village in East Asia, it would have been a tragedy for the chicken and its closest relatives, but I don't think there was much possibility of us fearing a global pandemic" - **Watch at 0:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X7fZoDs9KU&t=17s) ### Example 10 > "know I'm going to catch a cold, I'm going to catch a cold, I've caught a cold, I'll rest, I'll rest. But instead, when I think I'm going to catch a cold, I should" - **Watch at 4:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID677zCTSuQ&t=259s) ## How to Pronounce "caught a cold" - **Syllables**: caug · hta · cold - **IPA**: `/kɔːghtækɒld/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [caught](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/caught), [cold](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/cold) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “caught a cold”? “caught a cold” is pronounced /kɔːghtækɒld/ (caug · hta · cold). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “caught a cold”? “caught a cold” has 3 syllables: caug · hta · cold. ### How can I hear “caught a cold” used in real sentences? This page has 13 real-world video examples of “caught a cold” with synchronized subtitles. 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