--- title: "How to pronounce \"going for\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"going for\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/6Wf7pSfBFqE/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/going-for" --- # How to pronounce "going for" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/gɔɪngfɒr/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **goin·gfor** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "going for" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "One more time. Still nickels and dimes. Going for a run is not a crime. Apartheid wrapped in daily life." - **Watch at 9:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wf7pSfBFqE&t=577s) ### Example 2 > "going for gold and boy do we have some amazing guests for you" - **Watch at 0:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VuICdkuVRI&t=10s) ### Example 3 > "Going for a walk, you've achieved your goal if you're walking." - **Watch at 6:51**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izjlP9qtmBU&t=411s) ### Example 4 > "going for promotion after promotion and raise to raise, trying to make as much money as possible, but being super careless about your spending." - **Watch at 13:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awuTbPVCSH4&t=816s) ### Example 5 > "going for smell like let's go out for smell if we don't have the idea that we need to make good time or make a certain" - **Watch at 36:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Z_jND0oFA&t=2198s) ### Example 6 > "going for many hours." - **Watch at 38:32**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_IHYLdNBBc&t=2312s) ### Example 7 > "going for a run afterward you going for a run after yeah was having a good day now they made me really" - **Watch at 3:06**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3PoWNPO0cw&t=186s) ### Example 8 > "going for trout, for instance. Okay, I got a great trout recipe for all of you, all right? It's chicken fried trout with a coleslaw and" - **Watch at 31:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P79YuTLWVcU&t=1919s) ### Example 9 > "If we remove the definition of psychopath away from the kind of more clinical setting to an everyday life scenario, psychopaths tend to have quite a few positive characteristics going for them. They tend to be assertive. They don't procrastinate. They focus on the positives of situations." - **Watch at 8:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RsCp-sVl20&t=493s) ### Example 10 > "And I say that because I actually think that sort of in the second half of the twentieth century a lot of the writings about presence kind of implied that that’s what you’re going for. That either it’s stage presence and charisma which is a totally different thing or it’s this permanent state of presence that you achieve if you work for it your whole life and maybe the day before you die suddenly you become present." - **Watch at 8:46**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAsTZGwc3Kw&t=526s) ## How to Pronounce "going for" - **Syllables**: goin · gfor - **IPA**: `/gɔɪngfɒr/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [going](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/going) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “going for”? “going for” is pronounced /gɔɪngfɒr/ (goin · gfor). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “going for”? “going for” has 2 syllables: goin · gfor. ### How can I hear “going for” used in real sentences? 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