--- title: "How to pronounce \"tracking down\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"tracking down\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/nHsbKmHp0dQ/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/tracking-down" --- # How to pronounce "tracking down" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/trækkɪngdɒwn/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **tra·ckin·gdown** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "tracking down" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "And if you Google or look on YouTube, you'll find lots of amazing video of this very fast-moving, beautiful wasp tracking down a cockroach. Now, these cockroaches move fast." - **Watch at 18:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHsbKmHp0dQ&t=1092s) ### Example 2 > "perfect I have to include something from this collection so that's really exciting or when I worked on my show Gothic dark Glamour and I started tracking down not just kids who were goth kids but a a wide variety of designers who were inspired in one collection or another by some something Gothic that was really thrilling to track down how the gothic sensibility" - **Watch at 20:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVMR-Qgc3Ho&t=1217s) ### Example 3 > "perfect I have to include something from this collection so that's really exciting or when I worked on my show Gothic dark Glamour and I started tracking down not just kids who were goth kids but a a wide variety of designers who were inspired in one collection or another by something Gothic that was really thrilling to track down how the gothic Sensibility" - **Watch at 1:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jGAPbG-oVY&t=103s) ### Example 4 > "the atrocities that are happening now it's a little bit more difficult because there was a new york times article interrupted where they were had a people tracking down child pornography and i think the article said they didn't have enough people just to cover the videotapes of infants being raped and we can even wrap our heads around like reading lolita like okay she's 14 12. okay it's still a female an infant" - **Watch at 75:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIk1zUy8ehU&t=4541s) ### Example 5 > "mystery that popped up in the mid-2000s. Why are people born after 1995 so much more anxious and depressed? And I've been tracking down that mystery, and it points a lot of it points to social media, and especially Instagram, social comparison, all the things we know about social media. When the book came out in 2024, since then, what I realized is" - **Watch at 3:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EScgrk7oEwU&t=236s) ### Example 6 > "latitude uh to go into communities and be uh pretty forthright about uh tracking down people who and harassing people in some cases harassment may be a bit the wrong word but certainly making themselves known to uh people who may be showing radical uh Tendencies um very uh aggressive surveillance uh and the like and and this has contributed uh to their success" - **Watch at 4:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vf6KQQ9ne0&t=281s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "tracking down smallpox is just kind of on a completely different level we wanted to sort of wrap up by giving each one of you a chance to to quickly come" - **Watch at 56:22**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-3377oD9_w&t=3382s) ### Example 8 > "Ukrainian man foreign but in the Eastern donbass region where the war is still being fought tracking down evidence and Prosecuting potential war crimes could prove a lot more difficult in the southern city of mariupole aerial pitchers showed the word children dogged outside the theater building that was hit by Russian airstrikes in March an Associated Press investigation suggests as many as 600 people may have" - **Watch at 1:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8zBqf8W5Xo&t=112s) ### Example 9 > "costly just tracking down a glass GT is a feat in itself they're rare as the glass firm was taken over by BMW in 1966 he" - **Watch at 14:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_SiHuIHeVA&t=898s) ### Example 10 > "Fixing it means tracking down hundreds of data brokers and then forcing each one to delete your info." - **Watch at 18:40**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK2pZ_oVU1o&t=1120s) ## How to Pronounce "tracking down" - **Syllables**: tra · ckin · gdown - **IPA**: `/trækkɪngdɒwn/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [tracking](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/tracking), [down](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/down) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “tracking down”? “tracking down” is pronounced /trækkɪngdɒwn/ (tra · ckin · gdown). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “tracking down”? “tracking down” has 3 syllables: tra · ckin · gdown. ### How can I hear “tracking down” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “tracking down” with synchronized subtitles. 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