--- title: "How to pronounce \"third down\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"third down\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/ahSwXlhdkSE/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/third-down" --- # How to pronounce "third down" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/θɪrddɒwn/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **thir·ddown** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (13 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "third down" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "i wait till third down or fourth down to pass that's when they're expecting me to pass and again we think in modern day terms" - **Watch at 35:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahSwXlhdkSE&t=2130s) ### Example 2 > "He needs to get here. The music on third down is the wrong music. I don't want that music on third down." - **Watch at 26:14**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o00ihfDh2nk&t=1574s) ### Example 3 > "And he's going, hey, you were jacking that music up, I need it quiet. It's a third down, this is a big play. I can't have you screwing around with that." - **Watch at 26:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o00ihfDh2nk&t=1596s) ### Example 4 > "The music on third down is the wrong music. I don't want that music on third down. He needs to get here." - **Watch at 26:18**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o00ihfDh2nk&t=1578s) ### Example 5 > "So I don't want to hear that music. Never again was that music played on third down for Peyton Manning. And so, it's that level of detail and that level of obsession where, I don't know, maybe other quarterbacks are doing that, but I've never seen it." - **Watch at 26:42**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o00ihfDh2nk&t=1602s) ### Example 6 > "It's like, you gotta do the other stuff too. Speaker 2: Can't play music on third down, gotta be focused. Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, no music Speaker 2: Couple minutes left, I do have one final question." - **Watch at 51:18**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o00ihfDh2nk&t=3078s) ### Example 7 > "So we had that. So we got a lot of second third down conversations. We've got a lot of third down conversations, but when people would try to make sense of, okay, so these guys are going to use money." - **Watch at 20:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEGG3rBXEI&t=1238s) ### Example 8 > "So we got a lot of second third down conversations. We've got a lot of third down conversations, but when people would try to make sense of, okay, so these guys are going to use money. They're going to create content that they're going to put it out on the inside is not being them right?" - **Watch at 20:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEGG3rBXEI&t=1241s) ### Example 9 > "way of what i was trying to achieve and i saw everything as flawed what they saw was what i had achieved they didn't see what i hadn't achieved they only saw the one-third down which was pretty good in their eyes so they all respected me and i was feeling miserable about myself i was like i'm not worthy and i think that this is a cognitive problem that we have we kind of" - **Watch at 104:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t06rkOOUa7g&t=6293s) ### Example 10 > "But I will say that I do believe that it wasn't a 30, one-third down the line, because America was different." - **Watch at 25:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6m4iJIw_84&t=1509s) ## How to Pronounce "third down" - **Syllables**: thir · ddown - **IPA**: `/θɪrddɒwn/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [third](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/third), [down](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/down) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “third down”? “third down” is pronounced /θɪrddɒwn/ (thir · ddown). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “third down”? “third down” has 2 syllables: thir · ddown. ### How can I hear “third down” used in real sentences? This page has 13 real-world video examples of “third down” with synchronized subtitles. 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