--- title: "How to pronounce \"recit\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"recit\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/TjQdyT7eN64/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/recit" --- # How to pronounce "recit" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/rɛsɪt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **re·cit** ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - A short story. - *Example*: "[…] of course, far from new in 1939: it is a staple of the French recit (from Manon Lescaut via Adolphe, Carmen, Sylvie, up to and beyond Gide's own four recits), in which a young man confesses how he loved, misloved, was misloved and lost." - A narration. ### Example Sentences - "[…] of course, far from new in 1939: it is a staple of the French recit (from Manon Lescaut via Adolphe, Carmen, Sylvie, up to and beyond Gide's own four recits), in which a young man confesses how he loved, misloved, was misloved and lost." - "recite the exact same story year in and year out to my elder brother Giovanni" - "recital. And she's about to perform a solo." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "recit" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "It was always on the 25th of December that my late father Rolando used to recite the exact same story year in and year out to my elder brother Giovanni and myself. It wasn't one of his own stories. It didn't stem from his own experiences, but it was a story that was" - **Watch at 0:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjQdyT7eN64&t=21s) ### Example 2 > "recital. And she's about to perform a solo." - **Watch at 23:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PvWht9J60I&t=1415s) ### Example 3 > "Recite A to I as fast as you can." - **Watch at 12:06**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG8kkcN2evo&t=726s) ### Example 4 > "You have all the action packed into recitative. Recitative being very fast paced, patter rhythms that tell you the story, the narrative. And then moments of reflection and emotional response to the action in the form of arias, usually da capo arias in the sense that you start with an A section, it goes onto a B" - **Watch at 2:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUfIegm5WNY&t=124s) ### Example 5 > "it which is why the Bill of Rights included the Ninth Amendment to make it even clearer than it had already been um that the fact that some rights are recited doesn't mean that the government has the power to invade any other pre-existing inherent natural human rights" - **Watch at 2:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NATFnHgnvxw&t=129s) ### Example 6 > "know the one I'm singing you know I don't recital lot of poetry I like to read poetry and I love I I love to hear a great a great voice or a great mind recite poetry uh I don't walk around the house uh you know sort of regaling people with the last with the last poem there I've I've having sung so many songs in so many languages there are there are so many Beautiful Beautiful Moments i' I'd have to this will certainly be edited" - **Watch at 10:32**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89X78qxbPKo&t=632s) ### Example 7 > "things that make it small and it also make it unit and make it very essential the fact you don't need a lot of equipment the fact that I can be reciting to a poem by myself while I'm in solitary or well I'm driving or taking a shower can't do that with your electronic instrument I don't think is that you have ones you can use in the shower but you get what I mean and as" - **Watch at 0:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGEiliP94o&t=53s) ### Example 8 > "but active classrooms for me they don't just happen they require a lot of preparation it's a bit like sort of the piano recital as a teenager where you practice for weeks for like the three and a half minutes on stage but the great thing here at the gsp is that all that preparation i didn't have to do it by myself and today gives me the chance to thank some of those that helped some of those people who helped" - **Watch at 12:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG-pq3z5DHQ&t=729s) ### Example 9 > "oppenheimer was reciting the baha'i gita right when he saw one of those things go off so we can see nukes are really bad he's not reciting anything about twitter well but right but then when when you have social media when you have um all these different things that conspire to create a layer of virtual experience for people that alienates them from you know reality and from each other that's very pernicious it's impossible" - **Watch at 23:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0-SXS6zdEQ&t=1423s) ### Example 10 > "politically motivated don't forget GA president erdogan himself used to be mayor of this city Istanbul and he himself was thrown in prison in 1999 for reciting an Islamic poem which was uh unfavorable to the secular Elite back then and that only emboldened him and gave him growing popularity so that many" - **Watch at 3:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPKt63nsPU&t=193s) ## How to Pronounce "recit" - **Syllables**: re · cit - **IPA**: `/rɛsɪt/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [recited](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/recited), [reciting](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/reciting), [reciter](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/reciter), [recitest](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/recitest), [recitable](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/recitable), [recital](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/recital), [recitation](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/recitation) ## Related Pronunciations [reacht](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/reacht), [react](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/react) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “recit”? “recit” is pronounced /rɛsɪt/ (re · cit). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “recit”? “recit” has 2 syllables: re · cit. ### What does “recit” mean? A short story. ### How can I hear “recit” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “recit” with synchronized subtitles. 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