--- title: "How to pronounce \"cluster munition\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"cluster munition\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/OTk4Q4Nm5CA/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/cluster-munition" --- # How to pronounce "cluster munition" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/klʌstɛrmʌnɪʃən/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **clu·ster·mu·ni·ti·on** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "cluster munition" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "So why do the world’s most powerful militaries still use them? Cluster munition strikes involve rockets that contain dozens or even hundreds of smaller cluster bombs. This is the nose cone of a rocket from another attack in Kharkiv and this is the tail." - **Watch at 0:55**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTk4Q4Nm5CA&t=55s) ### Example 2 > "down for peace negotiations, there has been a major attack in eastern Ukraine in the town of Thrushkief where Russian uh forces uh reportedly have used a cluster munition to attack a market with um seven people at least having been killed there and more than a dozen wounded. But just last night, one of the largest attacks on um energy infrastructure um or in general on Ukraine happened with a combined uh use of drones and cruise missiles in in" - **Watch at 5:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0CnzKy8NRE&t=310s) ### Example 3 > "have a so-called dud rate of 2.35 compared to 40 percent for Russian cluster munition nobody really knows outside the U. S military how you can exactly find out what this failure rate is so at this point we just have to" - **Watch at 2:28**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_JEhgFDmH8&t=148s) ### Example 4 > "of ammunition and facing entrenched Russian defensive positions that's why the pressure has been growing for its Western allies to provide more weapons including cluster Munitions and today Washington gave the green light Russia has been using cluster munition since the start of this war to attack Ukraine in this environment Ukraine has been requesting cluster Munitions in order to" - **Watch at 0:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng3X2WFW0-Q&t=52s) ### Example 5 > "So they remain on the ground, posing a risk indefinitely. A vast majority of cluster munition deaths, 80% are from these lingering remnants as opposed to the initial strike. These weapons sit for decades and decades and are just as deadly and capable when a farmer hits them with a plow in 1970 or in 2070." - **Watch at 2:47**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTk4Q4Nm5CA&t=167s) ### Example 6 > "Since the signing of the 2008 treaty, cluster munitions are still in use. This container and cluster bomb were used in the last known US cluster munition strike in Yemen in 2009. The initial impact killed 41 civilians, including 23 children." - **Watch at 7:45**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTk4Q4Nm5CA&t=465s) ### Example 7 > "and that is what is crucial in showing that this was a cluster munition and this is the other telltale crater the other one that is confirmed to have been a cluster munition that we found now we're actually at the far other end of the station and this time it was on a platform this would have been full of people people trying to escape the war here and then this lands in the middle of them you can actually see two more" - **Watch at 1:20**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS8n0kG_GI&t=80s) ### Example 8 > "about having this ability to protect the whole border of all the NATO countries bordering with Russia. And Belarus is just a platform for Russia, so it's included into that border. We have left the Cluster Munition, the Oslo Convention, and now we made a decision to leave the Ottawa convention and voting will be in the coming days or weeks in our parliament. And I'm very happy that after difficult negotiations, all of our region, all five countries, Poland, Baltics and Finland have reached the same conclusion. So we are..." - **Watch at 17:57**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Cyr-mSzAE&t=1077s) ### Example 9 > "to life is the most important. And when we talk about life of my citizens —so Russia is showing very clearly in Ukraine that it is using cluster munitions, that it is using anti-personsnel mines. So therefore mines and cluster munition will be there. It's just the question if it will be theirs or ours and we will know where we will place our mines and we will take care to safeguard those, to protect these territories from civilians and then to de-mine those territories carefully. When Russians will cross our border again and will mine our territories and use cluster" - **Watch at 19:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Cyr-mSzAE&t=1152s) ### Example 10 > "now therefore given the fact that the counter-offensive is going slowly Ukraine is looking for other opportunities now having the capabilities having the cluster munition having um long-range missiles such as Storm Shadow to strike Russia where it hurts most namely in Crimea president zielinski has now declared the" - **Watch at 1:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cHrZ53XNuw&t=95s) ## How to Pronounce "cluster munition" - **Syllables**: clu · ster · mu · ni · ti · on - **IPA**: `/klʌstɛrmʌnɪʃən/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [cluster](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/cluster), [munition](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/munition) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “cluster munition”? “cluster munition” is pronounced /klʌstɛrmʌnɪʃən/ (clu · ster · mu · ni · ti · on). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “cluster munition”? “cluster munition” has 6 syllables: clu · ster · mu · ni · ti · on. ### How can I hear “cluster munition” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “cluster munition” with synchronized subtitles. 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