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.

zulu

/ˈzuːluː/ noun, proper noun, adjective

Forms Zulus Zooloo Zoolu

noun A member of an African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.
noun (UK, slang, dated, ethnic slur) Any black person.
noun Time along the prime meridian; UTC; Zulu time. “Noon MST is 19:00 Zulu.”
proper noun The language of these people, a Bantu language; isiZulu.
adjective Pertaining to the Zulu people, culture, or language.

Synonyms

noun Any member of the tribe of Zulus; a Zulu-Kaffir. See Zulus.
noun One of the most important members of the South African, or Bantu, family of languages, spoken partly in Natal and partly in Zululand, but understood, and more or less in use, over a wide territory, at least as far north as the Zambezi; --called also Zulu- Kaffir.

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