how to pronounce whine

/waɪn/

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whine is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of whine in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… I promise I won't whine about it and I …”

meaning of whine

To whine means to express dissatisfaction or unhappiness by complaining.

whine frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word whine occurs in english on average 4.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics whine can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that whine can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;