--- title: "How to pronounce \"sunk in\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"sunk in\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/-xjneW1XZBs/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sunk-in" --- # How to pronounce "sunk in" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/sʌnkɪn/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **sun·kin** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "sunk in" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "biological clock you could hear it going I went to the fertility doctor and the doctor looks me up and down and goes you're not healthy and it like really sunk in I've got to fix this but as soon as I started telling people in my team they're like oh no no no why would you want to lose weight cuz then you lose your multi-million dollar career you're just going to throw it away was that your hardest moment no the darkest point in my life was when I was 13 and" - **Watch at 1:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xjneW1XZBs&t=69s) ### Example 2 > "across more borders, escalating far beyond the Middle East. The US has now sunk in international waters and Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka and Turkey has been targeted by an Iranian missile." - **Watch at 1:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3atHl2PncB4&t=113s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "sunk in death and had consented to Li's death since for both it was to be a" - **Watch at 442:45**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wxpjIdvIHw&t=26565s) ### Example 4 *Accent: US* > "sunk in a scrambling commercialism heedless of the higher life the life of" - **Watch at 10:40**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIYms_VjYcE&t=640s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "Sunk in lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo again and again birth and" - **Watch at 81:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD6TCxizFjs&t=4870s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "sunk in the Nile at convenient spots. Buried in the powder of each was a loaded pistol with a string attached to the trigger. On pulling the string, the" - **Watch at 79:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9i4DQl_S0&t=4776s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "sunk in love's ruin this is life without you goddess holy places obliterated a" - **Watch at 48:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMxwdrbXEHc&t=2924s) ### Example 8 > "really sunk in your flaws have not sunk in and then you get married and now the same flaws that created small problems for you in other" - **Watch at 15:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9THu0PZwwk&t=913s) ### Example 9 > "now fears of an environmental catastrophe in the Philippines are growing as oil from a sunken boat continues to leak into the ocean the tanker sunk in bad weather off Manila on Thursday killing one crew member and creating the risk of a major oil spill oil smears the ocean off manila's Coast the fuel is spilling from a sunken" - **Watch at 0:06**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGt7L_dEvlo&t=6s) ### Example 10 > "are living in some kind of pre-war time where we need to prepare for the worst uh however I think the Dy we face is is very simple and I'm not sure it has yet properly sunk in either we are going to contain Russia at the border at the Ukrainian Polish border or we are going to contain Russia at the Russian Ukrainian border and I think what we do to help Ukraine uh uh get back its" - **Watch at 2:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHVtHvhGB0w&t=122s) ## How to Pronounce "sunk in" - **Syllables**: sun · kin - **IPA**: `/sʌnkɪn/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [sunk](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sunk) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “sunk in”? “sunk in” is pronounced /sʌnkɪn/ (sun · kin). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “sunk in”? “sunk in” has 2 syllables: sun · kin. ### How can I hear “sunk in” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “sunk in” with synchronized subtitles. 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