chouiner
French, verb/ʃwi.ne/
chouiner is spelled C-H-O-U-I-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,146th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chouiner is a French verb meaning “to cry, to whine, to whinge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pleurer, pleurnicher”.
What does chouiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto cry, to whine, to whinge
- 2
derogatoryto complain, whine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pleurer, pleurnicher. 2. Se plaindre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chouiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chouinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chouiné participle past
- chouine first-person indicative present
- chouines indicative present second-person
- chouinons first-person indicative plural
- chouinez indicative plural present
- chouinent indicative plural present
- chouinais first-person imperfect indicative
- chouinait imperfect indicative singular
- chouinions first-person imperfect indicative
- chouiniez imperfect indicative plural
- chouinaient imperfect indicative plural
- chouinai first-person historic indicative
- chouinas historic indicative past
- chouina historic indicative past
- chouinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chouiner?
- /ʃwi.ne/
- \ʃwi.ne\
- [ʃwi.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chouiner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chouiner in French?
chouiner appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).