--- title: "How to pronounce \"hies\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"hies\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/3_X8Fr5qpSw/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hies" --- # How to pronounce "hies" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/hɪɛs/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **hies** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (14 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "hies" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: UK* > "Cats, on the other hand, are solitary creatures, descended from wild cats who lived and hunted alone. Dr Hiestand thinks this explains the reaction of Adrian's cat, as she told BBC World Service programme, Health Check. What we're seeing typically is cats staying much more still..." - **Watch at 3:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_X8Fr5qpSw&t=238s) ### Example 2 *Accent: UK* > "Dr Hiestand thinks this explains the reaction of Adrian's cat, as she told BBC World Service programme, Health Check." - **Watch at 3:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1snwtQUQ4&t=239s) ### Example 3 *Accent: UK* > "But according to Dr Hiestand’s findings, cats also feel human distress - they just show it in a different way." - **Watch at 4:50**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_X8Fr5qpSw&t=290s) ### Example 4 > "plan does not fulfill his promise to bring a balanced approach to solving this problem it's mainly tax hies and his plan does not begin to solve our debt crisis it actually increases spending uh our plan meets these standards it cuts spending and paves the way for real job growth in our country" - **Watch at 0:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7MFYTMeNQ&t=13s) ### Example 5 > "better and best anywhere you want to make sure you're at least good not better and best and that means i think they're just going to be two kind of countries in the world going forward hies and lies high imagination enabling countries and low imagination enabling countries because if i just got the spark of an idea now that's what i saw in jordan if i just got the spark now i mean as an american man i can go to i can go to" - **Watch at 4:45**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiatea8th80&t=285s) ### Example 6 > "because ultimately let's go back to the the protest before we come back to the jobs Mr President the protests were about opportunities that's why I'm saying but they also did not want tax hies and which also bring me back to the question of debt how do you in fact sustain the debts but you said there are alternatives but then you made a promise in your apology on X to these young people that you would ensure that it doesn't happen again and these families" - **Watch at 13:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lnolHFTLo0&t=823s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "Strong of hand and stout of heart be it so hiest princess ancient rostra cried" - **Watch at 100:33**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWWeeqJKEM&t=6033s) ### Example 8 *Accent: UK* > "But, according to Dr Hiestand, the animals' behaviour makes perfect sense when you remember where they came from." - **Watch at 3:33**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_X8Fr5qpSw&t=213s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "John Geary, Republican, against Hiester Clymer for" - **Watch at 43:51**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM_KLxkPlG8&t=2631s) ### Example 10 *Accent: UK* > "Recently, anthrozoologist, Dr Karen Hiestand, designed an experiment to test whether our pets really do care about us." - **Watch at 2:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_X8Fr5qpSw&t=133s) ## How to Pronounce "hies" - **Syllables**: hies - **IPA**: `/hɪɛs/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [hie](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hie) ### Related Terms [dishie](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dishie), [overhie](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/overhie) ## Related Pronunciations [hia](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hia), [hiam](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hiam), [hiates](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hiates), [hib](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hib), [hiba](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hiba), [hic](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hic), [hicc](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hicc), [hice](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hice) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “hies”? “hies” is pronounced /hɪɛs/ (hies). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### What does “hies” mean? third-person singular simple present indicative of hie ### How can I hear “hies” used in real sentences? This page has 14 real-world video examples of “hies” with synchronized subtitles. 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