--- title: "How to pronounce \"expends\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"expends\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/SjN49-ViudQ/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/expends" --- # How to pronounce "expends" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/ɪkˈspɛndz/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **ex·pends** - **Stress**: **PENDS** — say this syllable louder and longer - **Native Audio**: [Listen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cd/En-us-expends.ogg/En-us-expends.ogg.mp3) ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "expends" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "and mean what you say. You must use Faith at the start, and use the words with a confident expectation of the result. Hold the steady thought that you are drawing on your storehouse energy expends itself when it meets with friction from the opposing habits already formed. We should start in by making as strong an impression as possible upon the subconscious mentality." - **Watch at 82:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjN49-ViudQ&t=4924s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "but it sort of expends politics and a bunch of interesting ways to sort of turn it from an interpretive system into a generative system I've got rhetorical" - **Watch at 64:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggh8niWwEfc&t=3848s) ### Example 3 > "terms of where the organization expends itself now just the balance between those two things I know they go hand in" - **Watch at 34:01**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwWy7OtaSM8&t=2041s) ### Example 4 *Accent: US* > "must do to read the energy he expends in deciphering the printed work legally and" - **Watch at 4:42**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HThK2ioGls&t=282s) ### Example 5 > "Stormy Daniels a hundred and thirty thousand dollars to keep her quiet about a past sexual encounter and claimed it as a campaign expends so for Trump and his lawyers claim he is innocent and that the case is politically motivated he has been obviously hearing the rumors" - **Watch at 0:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYoR0jNMYgc&t=58s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "fails and then the average common sense person expends much breath in I told you" - **Watch at 144:01**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-x-Mafm-wk&t=8641s) ### Example 7 > "love and to keep these cars on the road and to attempt to make them a little bit better than they were 30 years ago and give them a second life is uh is an honor for us the p 911 is cool and forever will be cool because it expends no energy in defining itself it just is" - **Watch at 1:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIGSgBh_wQU&t=113s) ### Example 8 > "love and to keep these cars on the road and to attempt to make them a little bit better than they were 30 years ago and give them a second life is uh is an honor for us the Porche 9911 is cool and forever will be cool because it expends no energy in defining itself it just is" - **Watch at 1:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlHgkO-USUA&t=113s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "things for creating this is its principal function the human child like the animal expends itself in movements forms associations" - **Watch at 164:40**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZuZfwuqoAs&t=9880s) ### Example 10 > "If a system gets bigger, it takes in more energy than it expends. And if a system gets smaller, it takes in less. It says nothing about what causes it. And to understand that," - **Watch at 37:22**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpFV6Wkl4&t=2242s) ## How to Pronounce "expends" - **Syllables**: ex · pends - **Stress**: PENDS — say this syllable louder and longer - **IPA**: `/ɪkˈspɛndz/` - **Listen for**: the stressed /PENDS/ in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [expend](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/expend) ### Related Terms [misexpends](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/misexpends), [misexpend](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/misexpend) ## Related Pronunciations [exceeds](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/exceeds) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “expends”? “expends” is pronounced /ɪkˈspɛndz/ (ex · pends). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “expends”? “expends” has 2 syllables: ex · pends. ### Where is the stress in “expends”? The primary stress in “expends” is on “PENDS”. Listen for that stressed syllable in the clips above. ### What does “expends” mean? third-person singular simple present indicative of expend ### How can I hear “expends” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “expends” with synchronized subtitles. 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