--- title: "How to pronounce \"dragging down\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"dragging down\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZkVA9viHC9Y/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dragging-down" --- # How to pronounce "dragging down" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/drægdʒɪngdɒwn/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **drag·gin·gdown** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "dragging down" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "part of the administration and there still is a sort of worry um that the administration and Joe Biden is sort of dragging down the ticket because still his numbers aren't particularly good so she tried to create some space and say look we're moving forward I've got an econ economic plan and I will move those count for but I would argue that the" - **Watch at 4:16**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkVA9viHC9Y&t=256s) ### Example 2 > "could get to a really nasty situation for the FED if we continue to see an uptrend in wages but at the same time see a Slowdown in the rest of the world dragging down growth at least temporarily so it's a very very difficult spot if wages continue to go higher geographically are the pole ends being Amplified by the oil crisis yeah you could definitely say that the problems with the oil exporters and Emerging Markets generally suffering so" - **Watch at 2:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwNEbAL7zjA&t=145s) ### Example 3 > "can pay how much people are actually trading right now because you really are distracted by this story on the other hand you had as Adam mentioned uh IBM dragging down the Dow it's actually come back substantially from where it was before because Futures are trading up so strong right but you know yesterday we saw all these tech stocks get crushed so Google was down hard Microsoft was down hard and those two have bounced back a lot of uh the trade today has to do less" - **Watch at 0:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEY9Rf8Z8LE&t=59s) ### Example 4 > "however it will also uh say good buy to this year's performance which is dragging down the GDP growth so next year 2010 I believe Chinese exporter sector's contribution to GDP growth will again be" - **Watch at 2:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0qihnjUjF8&t=144s) ### Example 5 > "able to make decisions independently in its own interests and not in the interests of those countries that are dragging down economic growth, we took fourth place in the world in purchasing power parity, this is Please inform" - **Watch at 2:33**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BBZPqf_zM4&t=153s) ### Example 6 > "income it's all down substantially interesting I'm wondering if legal costs have come into play here because last quarter we did have a high legal expense um perhaps that's dragging down the overall bottom numbers there oh that's a really good point but good perspective David but nonetheless to me that that fi number really stands out so fixed income currency and commodity trading so the big story that I found going into this is that Goldman had a 14% market share" - **Watch at 1:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdn3fTqXZ8k&t=84s) ### Example 7 > "to that development yeah um okay so that brings us on to the second part yeah let's look at the crises that have kind of defined the era of Olaf Schultz and have also been dragging down his personal popularity plus also the popularity of his party so we've got another soundbite to get us started in this one um and this is probably the biggest moment of Schultz's uh" - **Watch at 12:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT5cbE4wsg&t=751s) ### Example 8 > "scotland's institutions across the board are unfit for purpose are you unhappy with the process of government that you have in scotland this whole sorry saga is dragging down scottish politics and the reputation of the scottish parliament i've said before i was a school pupil when the parliament was re-established in 1999 i lined the streets of edinburgh with pupils from across scotland celebrating devolution and this new" - **Watch at 8:32**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JshWTIaIXTM&t=512s) ### Example 9 > "be moving more gradually than uh than a lot of and three is one more than what Nick is talking about you know that the consensus is mentioning but uh Nick you know this doesn't seem to be dragging down the markets but what could drag down the markets we've seen oil for instance which is supposed to be a net net positive right for the economy has actually been the source of some Bol toity declines here yeah it's going to be a very interesting horse race to" - **Watch at 4:23**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikU4P96PHs&t=263s) ### Example 10 > "the average base salary 11.69 dollars an hour glass source says the satisfaction level of those workers as 2.9 dragging down the overall average of 3.3 and these are the kinds of jobs president obama apparently is hoping to create with this proposed uh changes to business tax structure yeah john" - **Watch at 0:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PXKc3VoR50&t=25s) ## How to Pronounce "dragging down" - **Syllables**: drag · gin · gdown - **IPA**: `/drægdʒɪngdɒwn/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [dragging](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dragging), [down](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/down) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “dragging down”? “dragging down” is pronounced /drægdʒɪngdɒwn/ (drag · gin · gdown). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “dragging down”? “dragging down” has 3 syllables: drag · gin · gdown. ### How can I hear “dragging down” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “dragging down” with synchronized subtitles. 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