How To Pronounce Shine
shine
UK
Phonemic
/ʃaɪn/
Phonetic
[ʃaɪ̃n]
US
Phonemic
/ʃaɪn/
In British English, shine is pronounced /ʃaɪn/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ʃaɪ̃n]. In American English, it is pronounced /ʃaɪn/.
Shine has one syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.
Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.
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