How to pronounce “combine”
“combine” is said two ways
/kəmˈbaɪn/
kuhm-BYNE
To join things together. Beat on BYNE.
/ˈkɑmbaɪn/
KAHM-byne
The harvester, or a business group. Beat on KAHM.
Listen for the beat, not the letters
One syllable gets longer, louder and a step higher, and the other one collapses towards a schwa. Say the whole sentence rather than the word on its own and let the grammar pull the beat where it belongs.Both forms live in one sentence here: “Combine the fields first, then bring the combine back to the barn.”Each button plays a short phrase rather than the bare word: the model voice takes its stress from the words around it, so asking it for “combine” on its own would play one reading twice instead of the verb and the noun. Read the transcription as you listen.
Say “combine” in 2 beats
combine
/kəmˈbaɪn/
Everything in this card describes the verb form. As a noun it is /ˈkɑmbaɪn/.
The voice you hear here is American; a British voice is available in the app's settings.
- kəmkəm
- baɪnbaɪnstress
- IPA (American)
- /kəmˈbaɪn/
- IPA (British)
- /kəmˈbaɪn/
- Respelling
- kuhm-BYNE (verb) · KAHM-byne (noun)
- Syllables
- 2 — kəm-BAꞮN
- Stress
- Stress the second syllable: kəm-BAꞮN. “baɪn” is longer, louder and a step higher; the other syllable falls away from it.
- Part of speech
- noun, verb
- Difficulty
- Pro — the sounds are ordinary, the rhythm is where it slips
Where “combine” goes wrong
- Often heard
“a KAHM-byne of flavours”
joining things is kuhm-BYNE; KAHM-byne is the machine
What “combine” means
- noun
harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field
- noun
a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
“they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly”
- noun
an occurrence that results in things being united
Say it in a sentence
“Combine the fields first, then bring the combine back to the barn.”“combine”, answered
How do you pronounce “combine”?
“combine” has two pronunciations: /kəmˈbaɪn/ as a verb and /ˈkɑmbaɪn/ as a noun — the part of speech decides which. The spelling never changes; the beat does, and the vowels reshape around wherever it lands. The transcription and syllable breakdown below describe the verb form. Build it as kəm-BAꞮN, then run the second syllable a little longer than the rest and let the others reduce.
How many syllables does “combine” have?
2: kəm · baɪn. The beat lands on the second, “baɪn”.
Which pronunciation of “combine” is correct?
Both are. /kəmˈbaɪn/ (kuhm-BYNE) as a verb; /ˈkɑmbaɪn/ (KAHM-byne) as a noun. Nothing about the spelling tells you which — the sentence does. Move the beat and the word changes its job mid-sentence, which is why both are worth drilling. Both appear here: “Combine the fields first, then bring the combine back to the barn.”
What does “combine” mean?
As a noun: harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field For example: “Combine the fields first, then bring the combine back to the barn.” It carries 2 other senses as well — all of them said the same way.
Where is the stress in “combine”?
Stress the second syllable: kəm-BAꞮN. “baɪn” is longer, louder and a step higher; the other syllable falls away from it.
Now say “combine” and see every sound
Record it once and sayit lines your audio up against the target sound by sound — what landed, what slipped, and what it sounded like instead.