--- title: "How to pronounce \"extinction event\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"extinction event\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/qqabbfk9wV8/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/extinction-event" --- # How to pronounce "extinction event" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/ɛkstɪnktɪɒnɛvɛnt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **ex·tin·cti·o·ne·vent** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "extinction event" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "Right? So, there's been this concept that perhaps you've heard about where which is that um there's like been this great uh extinction event that's taken place. Right? Where many species of animals are dying. And um and they're gone. Microbial scientists are worried cuz the same thing is happening on a microbial level. So, if you were to compare our" - **Watch at 46:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqabbfk9wV8&t=2773s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "extinction event which is significant so um for a while we didn't know kind of" - **Watch at 5:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhnzOJxgNY&t=321s) ### Example 3 *Accent: AUS* > "extinction event in Earth's history and it's vitally important that we actually understand where the biodiversity is" - **Watch at 0:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxRcGpc5Tko&t=10s) ### Example 4 *Accent: UK* > "the extinction event. Maybe it is. We don't know. We're not editorializing. We're just saying" - **Watch at 2:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOEWF57HkVA&t=131s) ### Example 5 > "Yes and no. So so let's understand. Okay. So any help that I can give I'm going to give. So like my understanding of this mass extinction event that is happening right now is like a spiritual sense and I think some people may resonate with that and some people may not. So that's the first thing. Second thing is if I can help you I will. I don't think this is going to help you. I think all it's going to do is gonna it's going to" - **Watch at 72:50**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm2qDrb3UVo&t=4370s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "The extinction event in question happened at the end of the Permian period, which was a geologic span of time that ran from about" - **Watch at 0:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXMoBnuFZ5k&t=24s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "An extinction event caused by advanced technology is nowhere near as likely as those same technologies dramatically improving our lives." - **Watch at 13:50**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak7TUxGkUUs&t=830s) ### Example 8 > "the mass extinction event." - **Watch at 39:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qm1_On71Oo&t=2377s) ### Example 9 > "And that is the extinction event that did in the dinosaurs and a lot of other groups at the end of the Cretaceous Period." - **Watch at 6:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x00LP0QfRTk&t=368s) ### Example 10 > "The climate crisis; a variety of other really horrible things are going on. There's a massive extinction event where plants and animals are disappearing at an unbelievable rate because of human action. So one might ask, "Is this evolutionary success?" "Just based on sheer number of humans, is that the way to measure it?"" - **Watch at 0:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Yx1Fahjm8&t=44s) ## How to Pronounce "extinction event" - **Syllables**: ex · tin · cti · o · ne · vent - **IPA**: `/ɛkstɪnktɪɒnɛvɛnt/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [extinction](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/extinction), [event](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/event) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “extinction event”? “extinction event” is pronounced /ɛkstɪnktɪɒnɛvɛnt/ (ex · tin · cti · o · ne · vent). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “extinction event”? “extinction event” has 6 syllables: ex · tin · cti · o · ne · vent. ### How can I hear “extinction event” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “extinction event” with synchronized subtitles. 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