Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

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

Marks

  • 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)

Common word endings

  • -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.

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work out

UK /ˌwɜːk ˈaʊt/ · US /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ verb

Forms works out working out worked out

  1. verb (transitive) To calculate. “Can you work out 250 × 12 in your head for me?”
  2. verb (transitive) To make sense of. “I can't work these instructions out.”
  3. verb (transitive) To decide. “I can't work out if I like him or not.”
  4. verb (transitive) To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort. “I think we can work out a compromise.”
  5. verb (transitive) To resolve; to find a solution for. “They managed to work out their differences.”
  6. verb (transitive) To develop or devise in detail; to elaborate. “to work out a plan”
  7. verb (transitive) To smooth or perfect. “This is a beta version; we're still working out the kinks.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution. “These figures just don't work out.”

Synonyms

figure out sort out determine judge choose up decide resolve find posken make a decision make up one's mind take a decision hash out hammer out puzzle out reason out think out absolve decipher get to the bottom of work up elaborate exercise calculate cipher cypher compute reckon figure solve

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “work out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details