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# How to pronounce "plus 3" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/plʌs3/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **plus**

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

Listen to native speakers pronounce "plus 3" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "the retail prices. >> The retail price index. Exactly. Plus 3%. >> Exactly. Which is a higher and somewhat arcane and old form of inflation the government doesn't use anymore. But she said that because uh inflation was coming down, because interest rates were coming down, the overall interest payments, that was her answer, would"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 16:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVcT4LLG5w&t=993s)

### Example 2
> "plus 3%. What does that number tell us? The world economy has grown in 2014 and plus 3% maybe even a little bit more is"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWhIGtPDIWE&t=5s)

### Example 3
> "growth has been taking place since Q1 of last year. So, we were at - 7%, -3%, plus 3% looks like plus 7%. And we should get all the way up to + 12 or plus 13%, which is our earnings forecast. Number one. Number two, I would argue somewhat more controversially that we don't see"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUq-yv40xcc&t=20s)

### Example 4
> "plus 3 X Change but you would also raise them to the second power and third power but but since it's one it doesn't matter so it's Ka is equal to the concentration"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nce9vJx-IME&t=332s)

### Example 5
> "plus 3 cubed, which is 91."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzjaDKVC4iY&t=183s)

### Example 6
> "Plus 3. --plus 3."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 17:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGpxOuDJdJw&t=1023s)

### Example 7
> "Plus 3/5 of this thing times that is 1/10 h"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5oTQvNt47I&t=1189s)

### Example 8
> "plus 3/2 times 1 minus l, l plus 1 minus 1/3."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq0KO8Gmrm0&t=1338s)

### Example 9
> "plus 1 plus 3/4 over 2j times j plus 1."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 16:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSac7cMQnJw&t=1011s)

### Example 10
> "There is also a line from Riverrun to Pyke with a cost of 3. 10 plus 3 is 13, which beats the previous cost of 14, and so we update Pyke's path and cost as well. That’s all paths from Riverrun checked... so... you guessed it, Dijkstra's algorithm loops again."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 9:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8X2mlNHPM&t=569s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [plus](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/plus)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "plus 3" correctly?
"plus 3" is pronounced `/plʌs3/`. Syllable breakdown: **plus**.

### What does "plus 3" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "plus 3" in daily English.

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