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# How to pronounce "something terrible" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/sɒʊmθɪngtɛrræɪbl/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **so·me·thin·gter·ri·ble**

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

Listen to native speakers pronounce "something terrible" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "Yeah. I mean, I I totally know what you're talking about. You know, you see a Tik Tok of a woman who talks about something terrible that her husband did and everyone's like, "Girl, leave them." And she's like, "Well, no." or like you mentioned, girl dinner diaries, where people will post what they had for dinner along with the saddest, most"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 12:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBihH5isYgY&t=731s)

### Example 2
> "Something terrible was happening."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx419urqnkE&t=415s)

### Example 3
> "something terrible is going to happen and the things that people most often and it's unbelievably how constant this"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 15:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE9vllbn9Rc&t=930s)

### Example 4
> "Something terrible happened in Rwanda because we weren't there in a critical mass."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 23:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLM8pXPBGmg&t=1399s)

### Example 5
> "Something terrible always happened if they paid attention to you, at the very least a rate or worse."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 52:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJf7pihmgPI&t=3154s)

### Example 6
> "German Catholic immigrants, and it's happening now. Something terrible has been taken away and they're trying to bring it back. It's appealing to people's fears, it's appealing to people's sense of that they no longer count."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGs34q9zpCI&t=207s)

### Example 7
> "So cardiovascular surgeon who shuts down a conversation in the surgical room by berating his trainees and people don't speak up and something terrible happens to their patient. Or the primary care team that fumbles positive test result and doesn't act when they have information that they should act on."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8FtXRvE36M&t=1154s)

### Example 8
> "about the time of college probably I would have done something in political science um maybe law obvious or something something terrible like that honestly um if I was a little bit younger there were you know I really I loved uh ancient history archeology and also languages as well so probably something along those lines and if we talk like more recently something something in finance I don't know what exactly but"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 157:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJNvxYEcVAY&t=9455s)

### Example 9
> "terrible debuggers yeah and well they said specifically so we make a change and we put it out in the world and that's bad because something terrible could happen like if you're putting things out in the world and you're not sure whether something terrible is going to happen you're probably your process is probably i just feel like there should have been someone whose sole job it was to walk around and poke his head"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 55:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMVEbs8Zz0&t=3304s)

### Example 10
> "Did you have those thoughts? Yeah. Yeah. Not not thinking I want to take my own life but thinking if I if if if if something terrible happened I it wouldn't bother me you know to myself what I what I have learned fortunately is unfortunately we are all going to go through this and it's how we cope with it and being able to talk about it you"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 79:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsbCdCG8gE&t=4775s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [something](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/something), [terrible](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/terrible)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "something terrible" correctly?
"something terrible" is pronounced `/sɒʊmθɪngtɛrræɪbl/`. Syllable breakdown: **so·me·thin·gter·ri·ble**.

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

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