--- title: "How to pronounce \"deja vu\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"deja vu\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/_NmRdtaVtxE/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/deja-vu" --- # How to pronounce "deja vu" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/dɛjævʌ/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **de·ja·vu** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "deja vu" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "all the rest the fascist stand up master Steven Wright says he thinks he suffers from both amnesia and deja vu quote I feel like I have forgotten this before and quote who remembers the arguments when jurors gave pounds the only prize for poetry awarded" - **Watch at 2:16**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NmRdtaVtxE&t=136s) ### Example 2 > "know on the way although this has been rolling on for a few months now I I've had a very similar conversation to this before I'm getting a little bit of of deja vu uh is that The Regulators in the US SEC look like they're going to approve uh the very first one I think what people will wonder is if this is essentially crypto's getting you know the backing to some" - **Watch at 3:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwdu1Do50lQ&t=182s) ### Example 3 > "not really uh it's it's not it's not really the the the situation that you would say that things are are getting calmer or better because and that's also deja vu because you have demands on the streets are getting higher and higher and you have a president who is somehow silent who is not speaking to the people since last he didn't speak to the people he only spoke to his people and his rhetoric was very f it was really a rhetoric of of war not a rhetoric of" - **Watch at 3:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv6Kb6ef2ls&t=239s) ### Example 4 > "entrepreneur has come a long way and doesn't want to go back to a state-run economy okay many politicians want to try what East Germany showed cannot function it's deja vu and I think people if you would ask us we can tell you what will happen in a few years if you go down this road the liic entrepreneur criticizes the fact that the state is spending billions for banks and stimulus programs" - **Watch at 4:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8id0PN2Oqjc&t=292s) ### Example 5 > "said it's deja vu all over again in the words of the great Yogi be they're just deja vu all over again deja vu all over again deja vu all over again all over again deja vu all over again as Yogi be would say it's like deja vu all over again one hot air balloon Landing in West Little Rock and not for the first time as Yogi bar said it's getting late early so as we're getting these shorter days um it's still dark I think it was Yogi Bara who" - **Watch at 22:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07SueW8jRtU&t=1325s) ### Example 6 > "extend it for another year even had Mitt Romney at the point saying yep we've got to do the extension at this point so then what happened now Deja Vu here we are again so they did the one-year extension and now you've got you know politics in play if you will and there's a lot of talk about whether or not we should make this a flexible rate and tie it to the 10-year treasury at the same time you've got Republicans out there saying we've got" - **Watch at 1:15**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtKSB6bPlVM&t=75s) ### Example 7 > "we're going to talk to Steven roach who's Morgan Stanley's Asia chairman and he joins us this morning from Beijing Stephen here we go once again seems like deja vu of 2007 doesn't it why do American lawmakers continuously try to preach and to basically make another country move on its own domestic" - **Watch at 0:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH-A1yBtVGA&t=5s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "definition of Aura is that it's the experience that something is about to happen it's this kind of feeling of anticipation it's not deja vu deja vu is different and very interesting in its own right but different it's this feeling that something's about to happen and the fact that aura is such a prominent feature of migraine headaches or at least that people feel that the headache is coming on long before they feel the actual ache" - **Watch at 38:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGjdgy0cwGk&t=2293s) ### Example 9 > "So deja vu is just your soul telling you, you're on the right path." - **Watch at 44:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYJizul-76M&t=2692s) ### Example 10 > "- How does deja vu work? - So deja vu is, it's actually one of these things I think that some of the surveys suggest that like 75% of people report having a deja vu experience one time or another." - **Watch at 99:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuepdI3wCU&t=5978s) ## How to Pronounce "deja vu" - **Syllables**: de · ja · vu - **IPA**: `/dɛjævʌ/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [deja](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/deja) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “deja vu”? “deja vu” is pronounced /dɛjævʌ/ (de · ja · vu). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “deja vu”? “deja vu” has 3 syllables: de · ja · vu. ### How can I hear “deja vu” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “deja vu” with synchronized subtitles. 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