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# How to pronounce "nonfunction" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/nɒnfʌnkʃən/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **non·fun·cti·on**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun
- **NOUN**: Failure to function; inoperativeness.
- **NOUN**: Anything that is not a function.

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

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

### Example 1
> "Police in Austria say the lone gunman who shot dead 10 people at a school in the city of Gratz before killing himself left a farewell letter and a nonfunctioning pipe bomb at his home before carrying out the attack. Hundreds of people have gathered for a vigil for the victims of what's the deadliest gun attack in the country's recent history. It marked the start of three days of national mourning. The 21-year-old gunman was a former pupil at the school."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZZevWWIzs&t=7s)

### Example 2
> "plans for the for this country and blames it essentially on this nonfunctioning coalition government that he was the head of he still believes that he has the right ideas and that is why they call it the government program their party program I think that is very telling and you also have to keep in mind that of course it was by no means given that Olaf Schultz was going to"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXdI_AVYpFE&t=680s)

### Example 3
> "should be a survivable event and it shouldn't really lead to what we eventually saw particularly because in any situation where one engine is nonfunctioning there's still plenty of power and many say birth strikes are so common that they're factored into the design of modern planes so according to experts on a Boeing 737 and any commercial airliner there also a layers of redundancy especially for the landing gear which is hydraulically"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUYssvN3bWM&t=195s)

### Example 4
> "nonfunctioning system, having promised the ease of, you know, buying an airline ticket from Travel Velocity. It was like buying an airline ticket through a fax"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9jHu3JXxfo&t=291s)

### Example 5
> "nonfunctional um I'm just conscious of time"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 69:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78A0-JsPUq0&t=4198s)

### Example 6
> "they did not leave the did not live leave the hos they didn't live or they didn't don't leave the hospital so this is still they are in some places of it is nonfunctioning place like a kitchen and another department which is not functioning and so they are still there and that was Dr marwin abusada alifa Hospital's head of surgery and again we apologize for the poor connection there I want to cross over now to Sophie"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuTUeoxRxKA&t=252s)

### Example 7
> "Realized the guy was nonfunctional, realized it was over, was able to call the police."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 24:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvFjcJbtG4A&t=1459s)

### Example 8
> "contains currently you know around 700 people including the staff the patients the relatives as well as the displaced one you know using it as a shelter uh it is almost nonfunctioning either due to the direct attack of the hospital and due to the lack of fuel lack of medical supplies so the situation there is really very bad and we are worried we are very worried about those people who"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 13:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSgxVYaNfXg&t=797s)

### Example 9
> "And now these AI based products are at like the apex of this horrible trend where, the thing that you get at the beginning is like borderline nonfunctional compared to all the promises and all the features and all the things that it's supposed to maybe someday be. But you still pay full price at the beginning, which is what makes it so crazy."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 15:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTV12hErTc&t=934s)

### Example 10
> "the spinal cord, below most injuries, contained all the necessary and sufficient neural networks to coordinate locomotion, but because input from the brain is interrupted, they are in a nonfunctional state, like kind of dormant. My idea: We awaken this network."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FFzWUInyA&t=190s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [non](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/non), [nona](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nona), [nonabandonment](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nonabandonment), [nonabdication](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nonabdication), [nonabiding](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nonabiding), [nonability](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nonability), [nonabjuration](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nonabjuration), [nonabjurer](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nonabjurer)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "nonfunction" correctly?
"nonfunction" is pronounced `/nɒnfʌnkʃən/`. Syllable breakdown: **non·fun·cti·on**.

### What does "nonfunction" mean in context?
Failure to function; inoperativeness.

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