--- title: "How to pronounce \"term limits\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"term limits\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/bIG5Fq0MK5k/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/term-limits" --- # How to pronounce "term limits" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/tɛrmlɪmɪts/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **ter·mli·mits** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "term limits" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "foreign the DPP or Democratic Progressive Party that go is criticizing is the party of Taiwan President Saiyan 1 constitutional term limits means she can't stand for election for a third time so it's her Deputy current vice president Lai Ching ter who is in contention this is him meeting supporters earlier this month in New York as he transited through to Paraguay commonly known as William Lai he's currently leading in the polls and" - **Watch at 1:14**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIG5Fq0MK5k&t=74s) ### Example 2 > "has seen what could be described as amounting to a kind of regime change. Collective leadership, term limits for the top position. A certain small level of, well, I don't want to say liberty, but allowing civil society to find niches in which it could play an active role." - **Watch at 23:54**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taAHtUDo18Q&t=1434s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "term limits law um you know so the list of things that we did makes it very hard to figure out which of these things might have had any effect uh and so" - **Watch at 24:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cpkc7xxnKk&t=1488s) ### Example 4 *Accent: US* > "term limits era um and then more importantly I think the uh the world has" - **Watch at 88:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cpkc7xxnKk&t=5304s) ### Example 5 > "Of? Term limits. Okay. Presidential term limits, you said that you're not obsessed with specific dates, but, you know, institutional development is also predicated on having specific and obvious term limits so that everyone knows those specific dates." - **Watch at 32:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8NwWosL_zs&t=1979s) ### Example 6 > "Presidential term limits, you said that you're not obsessed with specific dates, but, you know, institutional development is also predicated on having specific and obvious term limits so that everyone knows those specific dates. So what, what, what is it, what is your take on term limits in Rwanda?" - **Watch at 33:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8NwWosL_zs&t=1988s) ### Example 7 > "Which if, if what I'm saying is true, that most people have integrity, one of the ways to solve the effect of corporate money is term limits. Because it takes time to corrupt people. You can't buy them immediately." - **Watch at 105:23**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJtPROVsePk&t=6323s) ### Example 8 > "uh like representation of states and federal government and so on why do we have us this kind of separation of powers is this different why don't we have term limits or not like big things like how do you actually make that happen and is that what it means to be a good guy it's like taking big revolutionary steps as opposed to incremental steps well i don't know that you could be a" - **Watch at 36:22**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uykM3NhJbso&t=2182s) ### Example 9 > "amendment to the constitution under the guise of you know improving the economic provisions but mostly people were wary that it was to remove the term limits to allow himself to run for re-election that did not work out because the senate stamped out the effort early on uh so now we see his daughter sarah duterte running for vice president she had been expected to run for president but given the alliance with the marco says it didn't it" - **Watch at 6:29**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y3ZNcs3W4g&t=389s) ### Example 10 > "the best job I ever had by far that was my favorite job of all time and if I could be a mayor for life that's what I would want to be but you know you can't because term limits and all of that but I always kind of knew that politics is my passion it's almost like part of my religion it's something I really believe in and I always knew I would make my living doing something else because I didn't want to compromise my politics with the necessity of winning the next" - **Watch at 3:14**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayVf1JBhVVc&t=194s) ## How to Pronounce "term limits" - **Syllables**: ter · mli · mits - **IPA**: `/tɛrmlɪmɪts/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [in terms of](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/in-terms-of), [with regard to](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/with-regard-to), [in relation to](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/in-relation-to), [as far as](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/as-far-as), [when it comes to](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/when-it-comes-to), [with respect to](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/with-respect-to), [term](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/term), [limits](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/limits) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “term limits”? “term limits” is pronounced /tɛrmlɪmɪts/ (ter · mli · mits). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “term limits”? “term limits” has 3 syllables: ter · mli · mits. ### How can I hear “term limits” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “term limits” with synchronized subtitles. 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