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Seine syllables
Seine has 1 syllable: SAYN.
- SAYNseɪn
One syllable: SAYN, rhyming with "rain".
Sounds to watch
Gliding vowels
The ay and oh vowels glide: start on one sound and slide into a short ee or oo. Cutting them short makes them sound like eh and aw.
Seine in a sentence
- The Seine runs through the centre of Paris.
- We took a boat along the Seine at sunset.
Read either sentence into the recorder above. The check judges only the target word, so the rest of the sentence can be rough.
What Speakeroo listens for
These are the pronunciation patterns from Speakeroo’s speech feature catalog that this target tends to expose. The check above reports the ones it hears.
- Final consonant omittedHold the final mouth position briefly without adding another vowel.
- Diphthong flattened into one vowelMove smoothly between both vowel positions.
Questions
How do you pronounce seine?
Seine is pronounced /ˈseɪn/, or SAYN in plain letters. It has one syllable.
How many syllables are in seine?
One. Seine is a single syllable: SAYN.
How do you use seine in a sentence?
The Seine runs through the centre of Paris. We took a boat along the Seine at sunset.
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