--- title: "How to pronounce \"recursing\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"recursing\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/96aL8Vn296o/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/recursing" --- # How to pronounce "recursing" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/rɛkʌrsɪng/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **re·cur·sing** ## Meaning & Usage ### VERB - present participle and gerund of recurse ### Example Sentences - "and recursing on nodes left child or right child all of a sudden we could sort of take for granted as being amazingly sort of enlightening if not a" - "naturally recursing on and then formulate the sub problems that way" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "recursing" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "everything is super fast by giving the database as many hints as to uniqueness as possible that was a and recursing on nodes left child or right child all of a sudden we could sort of take for granted as being amazingly sort of enlightening if not a" - **Watch at 53:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96aL8Vn296o&t=3188s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "naturally recursing on and then formulate the sub problems that way" - **Watch at 30:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9OAOk0CUQE&t=1810s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "and recursing forward, you're not doing all the work." - **Watch at 27:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NMtS1ecb3o&t=1645s) ### Example 4 *Accent: US* > "And I can do the recursing." - **Watch at 27:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60ShJrbrf8&t=1664s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "The algorithm actually is still recursing down to a constant size base case." - **Watch at 65:55**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwE568oVQ1Y&t=3955s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "It's the number of elements that we're actually recursing on." - **Watch at 38:45**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKFGdo4Sck&t=2325s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "And that would be more natural in terms of recursing on smaller subproblems." - **Watch at 38:57**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKFGdo4Sck&t=2337s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "that's the main that's the point here which is you you are recursing deeper than you need to recurse but all the deeper levels of recursion everything's" - **Watch at 31:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dC_J0wL0L0&t=1863s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "here that I would need to delete the entire list which would involve iterating or recursing my way down to kind of do all the work and then I" - **Watch at 8:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItCsK1vZcHU&t=492s) ### Example 10 *Accent: US* > "Then I recurse. And what am I recursing?" - **Watch at 22:39**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6EWVBNCxsc&t=1359s) ## How to Pronounce "recursing" - **Syllables**: re · cur · sing - **IPA**: `/rɛkʌrsɪng/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [recurs](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/recurs), [recurse](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/recurse) ### Related Concepts [recur](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/recur) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “recursing”? “recursing” is pronounced /rɛkʌrsɪng/ (re · cur · sing). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “recursing”? “recursing” has 3 syllables: re · cur · sing. ### What does “recursing” mean? present participle and gerund of recurse ### How can I hear “recursing” used in real sentences? 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