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# How to pronounce "getting high" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/dʒɛttɪnghæɪ/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **get·tin·ghigh**

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

Listen to native speakers pronounce "getting high" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "virus uh what we call uh tea cells white blood cells able to kill infected cells getting high enough uh levels of those types of cells to afford the uh killing of the uh infected cells all very important and even now people are looking at maybe not targeting necessarily HIV proteins but proteins"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lEMcVqJRY&t=461s)

### Example 2
> "Reddit in Discord you don't need to go through the humiliation of going on Linkin and trying to interview and showing up for work on time and not getting high at night because you got to get up at 8: in the morning you have just trade stocks or crypto on Robin Hood or coinbase right and that's where I really hate the manosphere is all this just take my crypto course to learn how to make money and get a supercar like me I mean that is just"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 99:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwyi6Zdeo8&t=5988s)

### Example 3
> "popularity among young people. DW's funny reports from Lagos. Getting high is quite easy in this neighborhood in Lagos. Drugs are sold on almost every street corner here, especially in places popular with young people. We are filming with a hidden camera how dealers offer various illegal drugs."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0MLtQNIbEw&t=43s)

### Example 4
> "than getting high it's about uh criminal justice it's about health it's about"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50f-8VN8bQE&t=36s)

### Example 5
> "And getting high quality single crystal has just been really really tough."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 68:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3XzuBt54ig&t=4106s)

### Example 6
> "I tried to stop getting high."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 31:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSN9Oc63Ag0&t=1861s)

### Example 7
> "is up. Nursery prices and food prices and other stuff is just all things are just just get getting high in price. So, it's just um diminishing the chance for you to have second child. >> I came out of med school with a lot lot"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goVElusmeac&t=92s)

### Example 8
> "when i noticed i started going to fishy was when i was not allowed on some of the fields people were stealing the hemp out of the farms they were getting high they were some of them said they were getting headaches and just by the look of it and the smell it didn't add up danae benally has been charged by the navajo nation and there is an open federal investigation into his activities"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVW0bbfYV0g&t=193s)

### Example 9
> "foreign policy would say I didn't think it was particularly well delivered either and the room and the room was not electrified I think that you know for a guy who's getting high marks on foreign policy very solid he answered Charlie Rose's questions quite well but this was not a big speech that I think would instill in people a sense of this is our commander this is the future um I thought he was better in the Q&A than he was in the in the act the prepared"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPH0KPbC1WM&t=281s)

### Example 10
> "those prices were getting high--and also made some play on credit spreads and now on real estate,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJogkN8Ep80&t=73s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [getting](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/getting), [high](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/high)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "getting high" correctly?
"getting high" is pronounced `/dʒɛttɪnghæɪ/`. Syllable breakdown: **get·tin·ghigh**.

### What does "getting high" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "getting high" in daily English.

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