--- title: "How to pronounce \"unfire\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"unfire\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/VeH7qKZr0WI/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unfire" --- # How to pronounce "unfire" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/ʌnfæɪr/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **un·fire** ## Meaning & Usage ### VERB - Hypothetically, to undo the firing of (a weapon). - *Example*: "You can't unfire a gun." - To hire again (a person who was fired). - *Example*: "J. J. Jameson: [talking to Peter Parker] Where you been? Looked for you all morning! Why don't you pay your phone bill? Mad scientist goes berserk and we don't have pictures! […] Where were you? Photographing squirrels? You're fired! Receptionist: Chief, the planetarium party. J. J. Jameson: Oh, right. You're unfired. I need you to come here. What do you know about high society? […] Don't answer that. My society photographer got hit in the head by a polo ball. You're all I got." ### Example Sentences - "You can't unfire a gun." - "J. J. Jameson: [talking to Peter Parker] Where you been? Looked for you all morning! Why don't you pay your phone bill? Mad scientist goes berserk and we don't have pictures! […] Where were you? Photographing squirrels? You're fired! Receptionist: Chief, the planetarium party. J. J. Jameson: Oh, right. You're unfired. I need you to come here. What do you know about high society? […] Don't answer that. My society photographer got hit in the head by a polo ball. You're all I got." - "unfireable anonymous American regulator should be able to impose regulatory policy for the entire world we are not the world of 1945 you know it is not" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (8 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "unfire" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "of it what I'm not sympathetic to is the concept that in 2022 that the unelected unfireable anonymous American regulator should be able to impose regulatory policy for the entire world we are not the world of 1945 you know it is not something where these other countries are even consciously consenting to that world just as Give an example you know there's this concept called challenge" - **Watch at 210:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeH7qKZr0WI&t=12634s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "an unfired gun U for unfired and then something happens and" - **Watch at 42:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3viANPhfD0&t=2533s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "the two states are unfired and fired okay the cat can be in two states Dead or Alive okay you start with a live cat and" - **Watch at 42:01**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3viANPhfD0&t=2521s) ### Example 4 *Accent: US* > "coefficient alpha live cat unfired gun plus some other coefficient dead cat fired gun okay it is not in a" - **Watch at 42:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3viANPhfD0&t=2546s) ### Example 5 > "as possible about myself as a private person to me very well and I felt quite satisfied with it to emerge to unfired I'm a tiny guns good and through me all kinds of feelings your mother's still afraid you might end up in prison I don't think she is now I think after about two weeks she" - **Watch at 10:28**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4nBQsIOkk4&t=628s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "plunge he sat with chattering teeth within his unfired wigwam" - **Watch at 158:20**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrEkSmM900&t=9500s) ### Example 7 > "investigation so far. The other important aspect in terms of recoveries, as we heard yesterday, they had made that recovery of a weapon. Uh they also today spelt out some more details about the uh bullet uh the the unfired bullet casings that they had. Uh which essentially one of them talked about uh one of them said had the phrase hey fascist catch. One of them had the" - **Watch at 2:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jMy0Kt96No&t=179s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "this no the cat in stringer's experiment is not in a superposition of alive and dead the composite system is in a superposition of live unfired and dead" - **Watch at 43:19**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3viANPhfD0&t=2599s) ## How to Pronounce "unfire" - **Syllables**: un · fire - **IPA**: `/ʌnfæɪr/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [unfires](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unfires), [unfired](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unfired), [unfiring](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unfiring), [unfirable](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unfirable) ## Related Pronunciations [unaired](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unaired) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “unfire”? “unfire” is pronounced /ʌnfæɪr/ (un · fire). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “unfire”? “unfire” has 2 syllables: un · fire. ### What does “unfire” mean? Hypothetically, to undo the firing of (a weapon). ### How can I hear “unfire” used in real sentences? This page has 8 real-world video examples of “unfire” with synchronized subtitles. 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