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# How to pronounce "litigates" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/lɪtɪgætɛs/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **li·ti·ga·tes**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (3 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "litigates" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "Which is itself a major critique of the theory of anarchy. By design, no one litigates what counts as anarchy and what doesn’t. And so, anarchist groups can sometimes lose political momentum."
- **Watch at 8:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Ibq-9wulQ&t=493s)

### Example 2
> "And so he hired-- or, he joined up with this man, Matt Topic, who is a lawyer in Chicago who litigates Freedom of Information request."
- **Watch at 3:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC1w7xk5bLI&t=184s)

### Example 3
> "It's been a way for us to obtain protections through litigation that we have not been able to obtain explicitly through congressional action. This is Sasha Buchert, she s a senior attorney at Lamda Legal, which litigates sex discrimination cases for the LGBTQ community. The pivotal case would be Pricewaterhouse v. Hopkins. The Supreme Court ruled on it in 1989, and it helped expand the definition of sex discrimination It involved a woman named Ann Hopkins who"
- **Watch at 1:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnpUptf7E0&t=113s)


## How to Pronounce "litigates"

- **Syllables**: li · ti · ga · tes
- **IPA**: `/lɪtɪgætɛs/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Words

### Word Forms
[litigate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/litigate)

### Related Terms
[relitigates](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/relitigates), [overlitigates](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/overlitigates), [relitigate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/relitigate), [overlitigate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/overlitigate)


## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “litigates”?
“litigates” is pronounced /lɪtɪgætɛs/ (li · ti · ga · tes). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “litigates”?
“litigates” has 4 syllables: li · ti · ga · tes.

### What does “litigates” mean?
third-person singular simple present indicative of litigate

### How can I hear “litigates” used in real sentences?
This page has 3 real-world video examples of “litigates” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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