--- title: "How to pronounce \"legitimating\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"legitimating\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/JyfCjzSgodM/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/legitimating" --- # How to pronounce "legitimating" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/lɛdʒɪtɪmætɪng/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **le·gi·ti·ma·ting** ## Meaning & Usage ### VERB - present participle and gerund of legitimate ### Example Sentences - "legitimating the new order so if you think about a deeply divided polity" - "as legitimating the status quo, it can be legitimating a status quo that is itself evolving over time." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "legitimating" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "but the other respect in which civil societies is important is in is in legitimating the new order so if you think about a deeply divided polity trying to create a new order there's no constituency in civil society for the" - **Watch at 7:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfCjzSgodM&t=456s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "as legitimating the status quo, it can be legitimating a status quo that is itself evolving over time." - **Watch at 47:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Ab6YcD1WY&t=2864s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "As dignifying and legitimating the present firing," - **Watch at 22:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggMmDCUYJ1o&t=1368s) ### Example 4 *Accent: US* > "discourse for legitimate legitimating respect for statistical lives and the public equally important public health law I" - **Watch at 74:07**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-k3IaI4SvA&t=4447s) ### Example 5 > "citizenry is way ahead of the pace the glacial pace of the Japanese government uh in terms of promoting and legitimating uh same-sex uh marriage. The high courts have already ruled that samesex marriage is constitutional. So I" - **Watch at 4:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Omt0-NxBsg&t=276s) ### Example 6 > "government seems to me that those are the primary crimes I would argue that the accident that I've been raped that's kind of self-defense in the context of a legitimating climate emergency done between the code law 34. okay so you would you would say that that they are they are committing a a lesser crime in the in the in the face of the the" - **Watch at 5:18**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF9z7QYbejE&t=318s) ### Example 7 > "reason we start responding to these things and soon we amplify it internal to the organization and the team and so much of the need for responsiveness is not actually driven by the factor that was initially legitimating it and yet we continue you know in in client service we always say oh we're on all the time because of the client the reality is it's it's not the client much of the time I I I chose to study BCG in particular because they're an extreme" - **Watch at 1:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJ_xGYRyGw&t=84s) ### Example 8 > "results that we were anticipating Georgia once saw itself on the way to joining NATO and the European Union a beacon of liberal democracy in the complicated region if um Western countries will go ahead in legitimating these elections this would be a grave mistake with grave" - **Watch at 2:46**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhDPlgDonYM&t=166s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "What he's doing is showing that literature is self legitimating." - **Watch at 51:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZkoBeI6gVM&t=3118s) ### Example 10 *Accent: US* > "might be in the in the interest of legitimating the country's position in the world to recuse themselves yes I mean it might be yes it's the decision" - **Watch at 53:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcpe2vc6MiI&t=3221s) ## How to Pronounce "legitimating" - **Syllables**: le · gi · ti · ma · ting - **IPA**: `/lɛdʒɪtɪmætɪng/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [legitimate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/legitimate) ### Related Terms [relegitimating](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/relegitimating), [relegitimate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/relegitimate), [nonlegitimate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nonlegitimate) ### Related Concepts [lawful](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lawful), [legal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/legal), [legit](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/legit), [licit](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/licit), [acceptable](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/acceptable), [allowable](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/allowable), [legitimize](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/legitimize) ## Synonyms [de jure](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/de-jure) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “legitimating”? “legitimating” is pronounced /lɛdʒɪtɪmætɪng/ (le · gi · ti · ma · ting). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “legitimating”? “legitimating” has 5 syllables: le · gi · ti · ma · ting. ### What does “legitimating” mean? present participle and gerund of legitimate ### How can I hear “legitimating” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “legitimating” with synchronized subtitles. 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