Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

unemployment

/ʌn.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/ noun

Forms unemployments

noun The state of having no job; joblessness. “Unemployment made Jack depressed.”
noun The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy. “Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.”
noun The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce. “Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.”
noun (countable) A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism. “All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.”
noun (countable) An instance or period of joblessness. “Until then his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numerous unemployments, and drug use.”

Synonyms

From un- + employment.

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “unemployment”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details