--- title: "How to pronounce \"stood down\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"stood down\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/Mc9Ed8AnL4s/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stood-down" --- # How to pronounce "stood down" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/stʌːddɒwn/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **stood·down** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "stood down" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "interview in effect hanging over it is maybe all this stuff about when he stood down and he was the C. Maybe none of it matters because we're in what he calls a once in six or eight generations. Why he picked those numbers, who knows? But if isn't that like 250 years? Yeah. Can't be that way." - **Watch at 42:42**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc9Ed8AnL4s&t=2562s) ### Example 2 > "she picks as VP it wasn't a surprise I mean it's less than two weeks since President Biden stood down and the Democratic party quickly coalesced around Carla Harris and now she has got the the she's passed the threshold I mean the virtual roll call will continue in terms of delegates saying who they want as the nominee until Monday evening but yes she has now got the nomination" - **Watch at 1:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGJ_NcTN5cE&t=108s) ### Example 3 > "meanwhile others have been speaking out saying they shouldn't be made scapegoats one of them the former lebanese foreign minister dubran abusil stood down in january he has denied knowledge of the storage of ammonium nitrate at the port saying the blame does lie with officials not politicians actually i was never in a direct involvement not in this government but even before" - **Watch at 7:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3Sce7zV2c&t=456s) ### Example 4 > "trust which runs north wake park said this means that we currently do not have enough space for patients requiring critical care the incident alert was stood down this afternoon but it highlights the strain across the NHS in London has one doctor and another hospital explained I guess if things get really bad then there's the worry that intensive care beds will get completely full and further patients won't be able to be" - **Watch at 3:14**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPONnXFCtCM&t=194s) ### Example 5 > "campaign itself but not the compliance so you didn't Wonder as to where the charges were were being made as I say I'm not one to sht my responsibilities I stood down on my own on my own account for something uh unrelated that but this side of things was not my side is it not palpably wrong that since these campaigners were going to help local concern conservatives fight that any expenses their hotel bills in particular should have been charged to the" - **Watch at 1:15**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hQSTlUfQo8&t=75s) ### Example 6 > "has Alex salmon had he stood down as s SMP leader then changed his mind he stood down as a member of the Scottish Parliament then changed his mind he stood down as an MP and then spotting a theme here he changed his mind but surely the number one spot belongs to Nigel farage he quit his ukip leader on Friday he was back in the job on Monday after his resignation was rejected is that the shortest walk ever in the political wilderness" - **Watch at 0:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JquEMEw9kVA&t=56s) ### Example 7 > "brexit in the course of last year they all left the party and then they sort of stood down the majority of them when the election came up so this means you're looking at a completely different Conservative Party now it has had a sharp shift to the right and everybody everybody at the moment is a Boris Johnson loyalist there is nobody would even say a word against him or his plans" - **Watch at 5:07**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE4v0RtDWwk&t=307s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "stood up then in theory half of you stood down so the size of our problem has immediately been halved then another half of you sat down so we've gone from" - **Watch at 57:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMF6vBA3atI&t=3429s) ### Example 9 > "constructions and all those meetings about anything when that manifestly objected to never heard of it second thing he stood down we jeremy stood down we then have a leadership election he gets elected on two platforms one unite the party never said a word during that election about constitutional changes at all okay well let me just finish this book then secondly stood on a 10-point policy" - **Watch at 7:40**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEkxfFRFWpc&t=460s) ### Example 10 > "a regular regularization that was announced, you know, back in January. You know, you get it when board controls on the other side are stood down. Um, you know, so I think, you know, the this kind of conflation of of regularization with with weaponization of migration is is a complete fallacy. You know, and also on the regularization" - **Watch at 6:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ispPnjYIhvQ&t=390s) ## How to Pronounce "stood down" - **Syllables**: stood · down - **IPA**: `/stʌːddɒwn/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [stood](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stood), [down](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/down) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “stood down”? “stood down” is pronounced /stʌːddɒwn/ (stood · down). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “stood down”? “stood down” has 2 syllables: stood · down. ### How can I hear “stood down” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “stood down” with synchronized subtitles. 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