--- title: "How to pronounce \"takes time\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"takes time\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ap8YiydvQ1g/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/takes-time" --- # How to pronounce "takes time" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/tækɛstæɪm/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **ta·ke·stime** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "takes time" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "huge unfair advantage and it's something that we can all create in ourselves. Takes time sometimes, but definitely something that we can all have access to. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Definitely something we have access to. So Han, you mentioned earlier the example of Kylie" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap8YiydvQ1g&t=716s) ### Example 2 > "Takes time, just like every cuisine." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 18:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLDiaESGhKo&t=1092s) ### Example 3 > "trading desk, been uh been successful by all the norms that Wall Street applies, takes time out, and then realizes, you know, maybe there's more to life than than just this. So, that's part of the issue. Um, I mean, I are there things that that we can do. I don't exactly know, but I think that finding pathways," - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL5xH0XTZVc&t=305s) ### Example 4 > "read freshman year even though I met large numbers of people I didn't have a small group of close friends I had to remind myself that making close friends takes time since then I have met people some of whom are now just as close as my friends in high school were now the goal of this uh message is to convey to students that that worries that you experience uh about about your belonging negative social events are part of the normal difficulties of the transition to" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLzwODpG7m4&t=705s) ### Example 5 > "And so I think that you set a mission, you set the behaviors, you operate in an open candidate, you said it takes time, build trust, transparent fashion and you give every employee voice and dignity and you've got a foundation that means something. You mentioned trust and I know in your section, in your chapter on leadership and one of the key things leaders have to earn trust." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 9:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxU6Z0BgyWM&t=554s) ### Example 6 > "by youtube as per the request of the ioc you know it's serious when a russian takes time away from family food and drink i am heartbroken to see continued incompetence greed and corruption on the part of the ilc in failing to do as the olympic charter states to quote ensure" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiNpESmPioQ&t=73s) ### Example 7 > "don't stress yourself out that you've got to have this perfect thing because this process of understanding your values and the interest but that takes time you can get a job where you're getting paid to learn exactly that's a good deal before you launch on your own you mentioned um going back to darkness i'm russian so like going back to darkness you" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 159:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Bet29PVPY&t=9548s) ### Example 8 > "level is that the body is sensing cellular injury and in response upregulating all those feel-good hormones and neurotransmitters, but it takes time. It takes time and so we're going to have a delayed sense of reward. And that's the runner's high, right? That kind of comes after uh the exercise is over. Or maybe for some people it comes in the middle of exercise when" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 58:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZKLaUbB33o&t=3504s) ### Example 9 > "consuming these. Well, why would you consume them? Why not just do a ketogenic diet? Well, we know that a ketogenic diet takes time to adapt. We just talked about that with physical performance that we see that you know up to four weeks to see the full effect on on performance or more. Well, what happens if you're let's say a war fighter or someone who's going out into the field or immediately wants to flip into this" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 52:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXUNnXHXeVQ&t=3168s) ### Example 10 > "and that's a week where i probably switch off the most and we always sort of go away a week later after that because because it takes time for people to get back and i suppose there's it's not fear of missing out it's fear of other people working and i'm not working i should always be working and during the pandemic no one was working how can you how can how can one be happy with with their brain saying those things that" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 45:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOHOGA4oME&t=2752s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [time flies](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/time-flies), [time passes quickly](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/time-passes-quickly), [in the blink of an eye](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/in-the-blink-of-an-eye), [fleeting](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/fleeting), [speeding by](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/speeding-by), [takes](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/takes), [time](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/time) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "takes time" correctly? 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