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# How to pronounce "unsolve" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/ʌnˈsɑlv/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **un·solve**
- **Stress**: **SOLVE** — say this syllable louder and longer

## Meaning & Usage

### VERB
- To solve.
  - *Example*: "Perchance, my Fancy would have bin so kinde, / T‘ unsolve the doubts of my perplexed minde."
- To undo or remove the solution to a problem; to put something into an unsolved state.
  - *Example*: "“But I cannot allow you to use my cousin to solve or, I suppose, more precisely, to unsolve your case.”"

### Example Sentences
- "Perchance, my Fancy would have bin so kinde, / T‘ unsolve the doubts of my perplexed minde."
- "“But I cannot allow you to use my cousin to solve or, I suppose, more precisely, to unsolve your case.”"
- "unsolved problem in the sciences was the problem of consciousness."

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

Listen to native speakers pronounce "unsolve" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "Coming from a background in the sciences and math, it always struck me that the most interesting and hardest unsolved problem in the sciences was the problem of consciousness. And way back 25 years ago when I was in grad school, it seemed to be the best way to come at this"
- **Watch at 0:23**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYUWtLQBS0&t=23s)

### Example 2
> "unsolved problem although we have some ideas is how do you actually lose the angular momentum you have to lose the angular"
- **Watch at 29:54**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK4HeaHCV7Q&t=1794s)

### Example 3
> "unsolved. Here's one called "the upsweep.""
- **Watch at 8:23**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeKE037FyeA&t=503s)

### Example 4
> "unsolved mystery of consciousness. You know, we're all conscious beings. We're sitting here"
- **Watch at 11:39**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4hL9a_VB0&t=699s)

### Example 5
> "unsolved mystery in biology."
- **Watch at 12:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4hL9a_VB0&t=730s)

### Example 6
> "times particularly recently when I've heard stories true stories and I thought there's one thing in particular that I I can't can't really talk about a great unsolved mystery um that happened sort of many many years ago that has never really been written about and I think someone ought to do a book and I sort of wish that someone could be me but I have I wouldn't have the patience to do that"
- **Watch at 22:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzwTGkoQLo&t=1347s)

### Example 7
> "were too early to market I really believe that while I started the company because I saw an opportunity with my cohort or persona so women who had unsolved health issues what I also saw in the background was this drastically shifting cost landscape in healthcare and that the prices were still astronomically high between service providers and insurance companies but insurance companies were covering less and less and less so those bills were"
- **Watch at 1:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRFLmexSOCQ&t=91s)

### Example 8
> "uh i can tell you that it wasn't the advertising it was something far more fundamental we basically discovered an important but unsolved customer problem that no one else had addressed that we solved well here's what happened we had a product out called quicken we found out by accident that much of the users many of the users were businesses we ignored that because we built quicker"
- **Watch at 5:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNaDZ2r107s&t=325s)

### Example 9
> "Frontline policing including solving what they call a car theft epidemic in the UK after their own analysis showed that 74% of car thefts have gone unsolved since the last general election well we're just over halfway through this election campaign now remember you need to register to vote by Tuesday and it only takes about five minutes online those are your election"
- **Watch at 2:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRgIC9JEJmg&t=120s)

### Example 10
> "Police Commissioner dimit ristov has an unsolved case a young woman went missing weeks ago the search has led nowhere so the commissioner seeks magic assistance this is not the first time that Clair voyen Elka and Anor have taken over investigations they need no"
- **Watch at 0:06**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JjdWvFPtls&t=6s)


## How to Pronounce "unsolve"

- **Syllables**: un · solve
- **Stress**: SOLVE — say this syllable louder and longer
- **IPA**: `/ʌnˈsɑlv/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed /SOLVE/ in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Words

### Word Forms
[unsolves](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unsolves), [unsolved](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unsolved), [unsolving](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unsolving), [unsolvable](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unsolvable)

### Related Concepts
[ravel](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ravel), [resolve](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/resolve), [work out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/work-out), [absolve](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/absolve), [unresolve](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unresolve)

## Related Pronunciations

[unabsolve](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unabsolve)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “unsolve”?
“unsolve” is pronounced /ʌnˈsɑlv/ (un · solve). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “unsolve”?
“unsolve” has 2 syllables: un · solve.

### Where is the stress in “unsolve”?
The primary stress in “unsolve” is on “SOLVE”. Listen for that stressed syllable in the clips above.

### What does “unsolve” mean?
To solve.

### How can I hear “unsolve” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “unsolve” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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