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# How to pronounce "year zero" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/ɪɪːrzɛrɒ/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **year·ze·ro**

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

Listen to native speakers pronounce "year zero" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "So, here we go. "Year Zero. Your girl catches you cheating. Well actually, she's your fiancée."
- **Watch at 4:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ViMba2PYSQ&t=243s)

### Example 2
> "Year Zero is the story of vast alien civilization that is so into human pop music that they inadvertently commit the biggest copyright infringements"
- **Watch at 10:33**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOqZcUdbteM&t=633s)

### Example 3
> "of institutions of american history but with trump they always live in the year zero this is always the immediate moment and so their anger was taken out not only on the the capitol police with fatal consequences but also taken out on on the history of this country"
- **Watch at 0:49**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VHbDjXVXOc&t=49s)

### Example 4
*Accent: US*
> "year zero and then this is 1994 1993 1992 and so on and I'm aggregating over"
- **Watch at 22:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh22HBZMHvM&t=1368s)

### Example 5
> "in Year Zero, was you can't tell people what to care about, but you can set up a construct through which they see the world through different eyes."
- **Watch at 69:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrvcuBwEKsg&t=4149s)

### Example 6
> "were to show a chart here it's like if you're at year three of your thing and you want to think about moving to year zero of a new thing you have to compare maybe year zero of a new thing grows faster but it has to grow faster than year three to four of the thing that you're on right now and I think that's that people will compare year zero to year zero but not year four to year zero and the thing is is you actually we have a linear life and so we that is it's an"
- **Watch at 105:50**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl-I7sUcAOY&t=6350s)

### Example 7
*Accent: US*
> "In year zero, you've borrowed 9.52, and then you've taken the proceeds and you've bought a bond at 9.52."
- **Watch at 45:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrmqYNvvIzs&t=2735s)

### Example 8
> "That was called "Year Zero." This was kind of based on my experiences at Rhapsody to a certain degree, in that it's"
- **Watch at 5:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbT_d_WMI8g&t=321s)

### Example 9
> "So do you mind relaying that story for us? - Phineas Gage marks like year zero that brain science had something important to say about how we become who we are. 1840s: Phineas Gage was a guy working on a railroad crew, building railroad lines and somebody screwed up"
- **Watch at 9:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke8oFS8-fBk&t=565s)

### Example 10
> "maybe year zero of a new thing grows faster but it has to grow faster than year three to four of the thing that you're on right now and I think that's that people will compare year zero to year zero but not year four to year zero and the thing is is you actually we have a linear life and so we that is it's an unfair but true comparison of the opportunity cost and every exceptionally"
- **Watch at 105:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl-I7sUcAOY&t=6359s)


## How to Pronounce "year zero"

- **Syllables**: year · ze · ro
- **IPA**: `/ɪɪːrzɛrɒ/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Pronunciations

[year](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/year), [zero](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/zero)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “year zero”?
“year zero” is pronounced /ɪɪːrzɛrɒ/ (year · ze · ro). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “year zero”?
“year zero” has 3 syllables: year · ze · ro.

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


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