how to pronounce submarine

/ˌsʌb.məˈɹiːn/

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submarine is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of submarine in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… but for the submarine itself …”

meaning of submarine

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

submarine frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word submarine occurs in english on average 5.2 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 submarine 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 submarine can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;