--- title: "How to pronounce \"false modesty\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"false modesty\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/gelTkUE_YdE/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/false-modesty" --- # How to pronounce "false modesty" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/fælsɛmɒdɛstɪ/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **fal·se·mo·de·sty** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "false modesty" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "think in pretty much all of them you said I'm a normal guy I'm a regular guy and I get that I get that I understand what you're saying however well it's not false modesty I don't want to I'm not going to let people build builds me into something I'm not you know and I think as I get older I know the frailties more and more and I'm not ashamed of them you know I mean it's it's okay many mistakes many many sort of it's okay otherwise Things become all too" - **Watch at 26:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gelTkUE_YdE&t=1581s) ### Example 2 > "turn ID Danielle claims he makes the best sabish in the universe there's no false modesty here and why should there be his Sav is known all over Israel the vegetarian snack consists of fried oine hardboiled egg homus lettuce" - **Watch at 0:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G72XKYn1E3s&t=26s) ### Example 3 *Accent: UK* > "False modesty. OK, I get it. You're right. I suppose that is what I was doing." - **Watch at 19:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FveWvD9NkYs&t=1153s) ### Example 4 *Accent: UK* > "False modesty. Rob: OK, I get it. You're right. I suppose that is what I was doing." - **Watch at 1:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtv7hsloVv0&t=79s) ### Example 5 > "going back to Baltimore to my father and have and knowing that he would give me the false modesty of like why know you tried about it now let's get you back on this thing and I knew that from that moment on he would own me and I just couldn't I I couldn't I couldn't do it I was like I will do anything but go back" - **Watch at 55:50**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3e73Qn6NOo&t=3350s) ### Example 6 > "where if there's a mistake that could be made, we found it. And that's not false modesty, it's accurate. We really made a lot of mistakes in the beginning." - **Watch at 4:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KavC8Dg0vhg&t=299s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "isn't false modesty any of this you know I have I have an ego I think I'm a great chef and uh you know I think I'm really talented in the kitchen it just that I" - **Watch at 20:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0xIS7Ib7K4&t=1205s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "Although some kind of false modesty." - **Watch at 25:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlvwagd2BmY&t=1510s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "I'm going to say with no false modesty I know less about Neuroscience than probably everyone else in this room I spent 20 odd years uh before working uh" - **Watch at 0:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IKSil-e5Lg&t=12s) ### Example 10 > "Practice makes easier and makes you stumble less. I can't tell you, again, not false modesty, truth, I can't tell you how many conversations early in our careers I bungled. Because I was so unsure of myself and didn't know what to do and was trying to be halfway kind to the person." - **Watch at 28:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KavC8Dg0vhg&t=1683s) ## How to Pronounce "false modesty" - **Syllables**: fal · se · mo · de · sty - **IPA**: `/fælsɛmɒdɛstɪ/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [false](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/false), [modesty](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/modesty) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “false modesty”? “false modesty” is pronounced /fælsɛmɒdɛstɪ/ (fal · se · mo · de · sty). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “false modesty”? “false modesty” has 5 syllables: fal · se · mo · de · sty. ### How can I hear “false modesty” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “false modesty” with synchronized subtitles. 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