--- title: "How to pronounce \"lost control\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"lost control\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/uGj6qSPv6iU/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lost-control" --- # How to pronounce "lost control" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/lɒstkɒntrɒl/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **los·tcon·trol** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "lost control" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "unacceptable or or intolerable. Uh, I thought that Saddam Hussein, to use Coen Powell's phrase at the time, was in was in something of a box. He had lost control over most of the north of his country. You had US and coalition aircraft flying over the north and over the south. Uh, he was really limited in his sway over uh his own country. We thought at most he had some biological and some chemical weapons. He had not been able to rebuild his conventional" - **Watch at 2:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGj6qSPv6iU&t=173s) ### Example 2 > "we were also told that they were tactically unsound because if you ever attempted them and you lost control of the leg lock your opponent would end up on top of you or in some kind of good position and you'd be in terrible trouble um and we're also told that they were unsafe that uh if they were applied in the gym there'd be far too many injuries and" - **Watch at 104:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktuw6Ow4sd0&t=6292s) ### Example 3 > "or it's driven by your anxiety or it's driven by whatever it is that you may have but once you get your energetic hook into somebody else you've now just lost control because you are now trying to gain control of anything in your life what your friends are doing for brunch this weekend by focusing on them when you say let them this is what's very interesting it's very different than saying I'm just going to let go I don't give a hoot I don't care I baloney if" - **Watch at 47:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEo48f_Rs4w&t=2855s) ### Example 4 > "it's people that are older are more at risk." Yeah. And he just went into this red mist. Okay. He was totally triggered and lost control of his emotions. Okay, so if you observed him then, what you would have noticed is remember what I said about healthy anger? It's in the present moment. Once it's done its job, it's gone." - **Watch at 69:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7zWT3l3DV0&t=4164s) ### Example 5 > "I had no I'd never even crossed my mind that I had depression I just knew I'd lost control over my eating and freaked me out because it was all about the way I looked you know it was it was vanity I was like I'm eating I'm eating loads and you know I feel very grateful I was never bulimic I tried I couldn't" - **Watch at 61:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfzFFQgG2zU&t=3701s) ### Example 6 > "stride in the comments today. This spending review is not worth the paper that it is written on because the chancellor has completely lost control. This is the spend now tax later review because the right honorable lady knows she will need to come back here in the" - **Watch at 15:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW1fa1Qp_3k&t=948s) ### Example 7 > "you very much for coming on the program just talk us through what we know about what happened here it's unclear as to how uh the bus lost control but we what we know is that the bus was traveling from Botswana to an area in limoo known as Maria it's a um Easter Church Gathering that happens" - **Watch at 0:51**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWl6YpI5c4k&t=51s) ### Example 8 > "Durban n m well let's go to Johannesburg and we can speak to the BBC's shingai nioka despite the police and the Army being on the streets have they still lost control well as you aware Tim it's been more than 24 hours since about two and a half thousand soldiers were deployed on" - **Watch at 2:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwvKB2kp8qY&t=130s) ### Example 9 > "Johnson's side and everything was that was a smart idea a good idea to put the experts there but that just in in recent days that perhaps the government had lost control of getting the message out there to the public what exactly is the point of government policies it's a stop the disease to slow it spread what on earth is it so I think that's why you're now seeing the government moving to this idea of of daily news conferences Rob good to see you an Oxford thanks so much" - **Watch at 12:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMKRbmoMgNI&t=741s) ### Example 10 > "people 350 most people would say and they'd be absolutely right that we had lost control of that 350 million and it's totally wrong you get a lot back in your pocket you get a lot back in your pocket just as farmers do just as universities do lots of organizations in this country that money comes back to them ab and the point that we're making is that we would have" - **Watch at 2:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkESFmODHF0&t=132s) ## How to Pronounce "lost control" - **Syllables**: los · tcon · trol - **IPA**: `/lɒstkɒntrɒl/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [lost](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lost), [control](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/control) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “lost control”? “lost control” is pronounced /lɒstkɒntrɒl/ (los · tcon · trol). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “lost control”? “lost control” has 3 syllables: los · tcon · trol. ### How can I hear “lost control” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “lost control” with synchronized subtitles. 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