--- title: "How to pronounce \"short answer\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"short answer\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/5qJlsEz07eQ/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/short-answer" --- # How to pronounce "short answer" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/ʃɒrtænswɛr/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **shor·tan·swer** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "short answer" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "doing frame-by-frame analysis, but in the end, you're just trying to work backward and figure out what an artist decided to draw. Short answer-- plane flying a T-rex is fine, as long as the T-rex has its cell data off while the flight's in motion." - **Watch at 41:14**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qJlsEz07eQ&t=2474s) ### Example 2 > "Short answer would be yes." - **Watch at 35:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaf_ERikp4Y&t=2105s) ### Example 3 > "Short answer to your question, several decades into the future, high confidence because of the highly qualified scientists we have in our laboratories and highly sophisticated" - **Watch at 30:57**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8BqMPDQwyM&t=1857s) ### Example 4 > "Does GPT-4 have subjective experience? Short answer, I don't know, because we still don't know what it is that gives this wonderful subjective experience that is kind of the meaning of our life, right? Because meaning itself, the feeling of meaning is a subjective experience." - **Watch at 139:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A&t=8388s) ### Example 5 > "going on on venus in terms of phosphine in terms of aliens okay let's try to break it down okay the short answer is we don't know um i think you and the rest of the public are now witnessing a pretty exciting discovery but as it evolves as it unfolds um we did not wait until we had you know years of data from 10 different" - **Watch at 2:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGAvsmokB4c&t=168s) ### Example 6 > "Would you get in a self-driving car? >> Yeah, I've thought about that often after at the end of a late shift when I don't feel like driving home. Um the short answer is yes because for me that's a much more repetitive task and the stats will show that in time they are safer. They already show that but you know so I'd be more comfortable with a self-driving car when it comes to surgery that level of care that level of detail. I don't think so." - **Watch at 14:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eCEUd22y1w&t=840s) ### Example 7 > "will be making decisions that will be less focused on the electorate itself and more focused on sort of his own issues, securing his legacy. So, the short answer is no. I don't think that for him and for his White House team, you know, those voters who might have mattered in the past are are quite as front and center for him now. I mean, we've been talking for 10 years, haven't we, about the Republican Party becoming the party of Donald Trump? Do you think" - **Watch at 5:51**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSfpJCy7hQg&t=351s) ### Example 8 > "missiles but these are all used to counter mostly short and medium range um uh intermediate range ballistic missiles in their final phase. So short answer there's a lot more work that needs to be done on the interceptor piece for an ICBM. >> Right. So, no UK sequel to The House of Dynamite, then? >> Uh, I don't think No sign up to that." - **Watch at 17:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ2WS6AI_SM&t=1061s) ### Example 9 > "intelligence yes uh we see there so much progress has been made in the AI World um for the video creation and I and you know when I I do think there's a the short answer there will be a future and I think it's not going to be very long from now we see uh even though right now I think the AI video tour is nowhere you know it's soon hard for the AI tool to create a like a full featureless film in that you can see in the cema but we do see there's so much progress in AI that" - **Watch at 12:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrRIcjcgzNk&t=730s) ### Example 10 > "the US all over the world to Mark exam scripts so they've changed the exam in Texas so that it has more long form answers so less multiple choice exact short answer and they're going to be using trained AI models to Mark students answers now before you look really skeptical okay what I would say is if you look at gcses in the UK in England for example if you look at the GCSE papers and long form answers for example in a history essay right actually it's" - **Watch at 12:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqcv9lCADxE&t=751s) ## How to Pronounce "short answer" - **Syllables**: shor · tan · swer - **IPA**: `/ʃɒrtænswɛr/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [short](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/short), [answer](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/answer) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “short answer”? “short answer” is pronounced /ʃɒrtænswɛr/ (shor · tan · swer). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “short answer”? “short answer” has 3 syllables: shor · tan · swer. ### How can I hear “short answer” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “short answer” with synchronized subtitles. 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