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# How to pronounce "try hard" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ˈtɹaɪˌhɑɹd/`
- **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-tryhard.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-tryhard.wav.mp3)
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **try·hard**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun, adjective, verb
- **NOUN**: A person usually of little talent who tries hard to succeed, especially through imitation, usually to gain fame or popularity.
- **NOUN**: A person who is perceived as putting too much effort into something recreational, such as a game.
  - *Example*: "I'm going to try as hard as I—I'm going to be the sweatiest fucking tryhard in this server. I'm going to kill you."
- **ADJECTIVE**: Done to excess, to an embarrassing degree.

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "try hard" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "hasn't taken reasonable steps to comply, they can be fined up to 49.5 million Australian dollars. But you know, it's it's not an inconsequential fine to not try hard enough. And again, I suspect the systems will have to get much more robust uh in terms of making sure that those accounts uh closed uh until the user is 16. And again, as I said, they'll get more robust because your market is bigger"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 24:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8RfesGm0U4&t=1479s)

### Example 2
> "and to boost prices and a strategy like that comes off as so insincere and so try hard that like just look at the comments everybody people are already turned off by it actually people kind of hate it and so dogecoin on the other hand is is being boosted literally by people meaning online and the owners because i think they realize that it's never been meant to be"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMdq9pDiuQ&t=426s)

### Example 3
> "try hard to make things nice for you and the people really are lovely you mustn't feel as if things are altogether gloomy George I know everything's going to turn"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 587:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAND0Ode9I&t=35275s)

### Example 4
> "try hard is a bit aging it's a bit dating really nice here what Linda also like she's just giving us color I am all about the power of color this gorgeous"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xndP4VnVcBQ&t=156s)

### Example 5
> "try hard with these machine learning methods, how often can you make a classifier that works as well as this one does?"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFX04wkGZ3Y&t=1179s)

### Example 6
> "do try hard to stay fit. Having two young kids at the house does not make it easy, but AG1 has made it a lot"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 21:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9GdcgjRm6A&t=1314s)

### Example 7
> "We try hard to be the best person we can be."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abM2dHGwip8&t=328s)

### Example 8
> "We try hard. You succeed."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 9:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfjtLZzwWSU&t=554s)

### Example 9
> "I try hard to listen and do what they say, he wrote Rich C. I'm trying to do it easy this time, not get an A+."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 13:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPIAiX3zQVQ&t=822s)

### Example 10
> "I like to think that it is a good place to work. We try hard, no one works more than a five-day week, which in Kenya is not typical. From my previous company, it was very difficult to have work-life balance because I worked during the weekends."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtwP5lWZLdA&t=136s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [try](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/try), [hard](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hard)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "try hard" correctly?
"try hard" is pronounced `/ˈtɹaɪˌhɑɹd/`. Syllable breakdown: **try·hard**.

### What does "try hard" mean in context?
A person usually of little talent who tries hard to succeed, especially through imitation, usually to gain fame or popularity.

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