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# How to pronounce "gets better" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/dʒɛtsbɛttɛr/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **get·sbet·ter**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "gets better" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "And what I'm trying to argue in the book is, first of all, it's selfish for bosses to create the conditions for enrollment, because everything gets better when they do. And it's selfish, in a good way, for employees to do this, not because you're giving the boss a bonus, but because you're not trying to spite them"
- **Watch at 16:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAanAMFJ3iE&t=1012s)

### Example 2
> "Gets Better as well."
- **Watch at 19:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CVwgpS9oos&t=1149s)

### Example 3
> "Gets better than that."
- **Watch at 27:14**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4vImImvBOc&t=1634s)

### Example 4
> "gets better because in so far as to me life is about collecting awesome"
- **Watch at 24:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evIH8sFqw4I&t=1444s)

### Example 5
> "gets better it does get better so much better you'll be fine"
- **Watch at 2:29**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP8TmGJWHM8&t=149s)

### Example 6
> "gets better video there was a there was an earlier take we shot one in our house"
- **Watch at 11:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP8TmGJWHM8&t=697s)

### Example 7
> "before and uh once you're engaged in these programs on the back end there's a lot of information from medpedia that everyone's contributing to every day it gets better and better deeper and deeper more and more relevant better and better worded uh and and if you have a have a mediocre experience you can go in and make some changes to the database as well so that these services that you're engaged in are getting better and better every day"
- **Watch at 4:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QndiemeZU3M&t=264s)

### Example 8
> "because their understanding of the world and intuitive physics is not that great right I mean these are like you know four or five year old kids you know it gets better and then you understand that this it can't be right but there are many things which we can because of our common sense understanding of things what people call common sense yeah and we understanding of physics we can there's a lot of stuff that we can figure out causality even with diseases"
- **Watch at 23:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGSOCuByo24&t=1428s)

### Example 9
> "foreign secretary one of your team African Minister James Doddridge today urged the prime minister to rest up and let others do the heavy lifting until he gets better do you not agree that the Prime Minister at this moment needs to rest not work and a question to Professor Witte first that welcome back it's nice to see you back we're entering the third week of lockdown the government said it would review the lockdown at the end of this"
- **Watch at 11:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_zGWamw0I&t=687s)

### Example 10
> "deep submersible diving is very dangerous but it is it's high tech you know and as each year goes by the equipment gets better the technology gets better and so on so I'm very hopeful and very positive I I mean I was in the sub for 12 hours we have our own breathing system on board and if that's maintained properly like changing your filter and your CO2 scrubber you can stay down there for you know quite a few hours"
- **Watch at 2:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWDVWiTzS8w&t=122s)


## How to Pronounce "gets better"

- **Syllables**: get · sbet · ter
- **IPA**: `/dʒɛtsbɛttɛr/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Pronunciations

[gets](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/gets), [better](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/better)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “gets better”?
“gets better” is pronounced /dʒɛtsbɛttɛr/ (get · sbet · ter). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “gets better”?
“gets better” has 3 syllables: get · sbet · ter.

### How can I hear “gets better” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “gets better” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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