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# How to pronounce "count off" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/kæʊntɒff/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **coun·toff**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "count off" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "He was the stage manager and one of his jobs was to place Howdy in the chair uh before the show went live. And when they would count off 10, 9, 8 before it went live, my father, for the amusement of the crew, would do filthy things to Howdy. I mean filthy. And then it would"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b96BODiI0A8&t=155s)

### Example 2
> "government do with its budgetary policy? It runs a budget deficit officially measured at around 8 to 9% of GDP. It's actually probably much bigger than that when you count off-budget items and include local governments and so on. Um, and the finance minister himself has actually gone on record in People's Daily in an article a couple of day or weeks ago in which he's sort of arguing about"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 18:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzyiKs-Vh0&t=1082s)

### Example 3
> "A lot of people, as I mentioned before, have obsessions and compulsions that they hide and they do these little micro behaviors, or they'll just count off in their head as opposed to generating some sort of walking up and downstairs or tapping or things of that sort. So we have checking, we have repetition, and then there's order."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 17:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadokY8fcAA&t=1042s)

### Example 4
> "Then you count them off again, and the important thing is this time you count off that many times, and then you turn"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 8:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHzUQnRjbuM&t=495s)

### Example 5
> "So we started the count off from that as long as we can remember we've had an emu Peepee."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgd7WEoGS8o&t=119s)

### Example 6
> "So I can count off."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 56:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnV-2uWG9w&t=3401s)

### Example 7
> "i'll have a specific technique to have in mind and i have a sheet of paper on the side where i literally my head keep count off how many times i put myself in that position and pulled off the technique and that's all i care about yeah in like training so i'll just uh uh whatever it is if it's a guillotine cigarette arm drag arm drag but i want to make sure i don't"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 89:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tApj7Q37P2k&t=5362s)

### Example 8
> "alone there it is high the arm is on his way count off"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TcQrsQDCsc&t=403s)

### Example 9
> "portrayals whether it's television film news stories whatever it may be and then uh we're the voice against the defamation that the community still faces on a regular basis you just you know it doesn't take long to count off the times that we've been very publicly defamed by high-profile individuals from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to you know Jerry Lewis on his ton last year so there's a lot of times when we have to step in and say uh you're"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLqkr4jIjVg&t=37s)

### Example 10
> "or your phone or anything like that, you would have to set the tick marks. You'd have to decide how many times you were going to count off during that five-minute time block. There's also retrospective time which is how you measure off time in the past."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 33:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IWDAqodDas&t=1983s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [take into account](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/take-into-account), [bear in mind](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/bear-in-mind), [take into consideration](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/take-into-consideration), [factor in](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/factor-in), [give thought to](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/give-thought-to), [look into](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/look-into), [count](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/count), [off](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/off)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "count off" correctly?
"count off" is pronounced `/kæʊntɒff/`. Syllable breakdown: **coun·toff**.

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

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