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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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black pine

noun

Forms black pines

  1. noun A European black pine (Pinus nigra);
  2. noun A Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii);
  3. noun A Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi), principally of California.
  4. noun Matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia), a New Zealand conifer;
  5. noun Miro (Pectinopitys ferruginea), also a New Zealand conifer.
  6. noun (uncountable) Wood of such trees
  7. noun (uncountable) A certain red alga, of species Neorhodomela larix, found in intertidal areas of the North Pacific.

Synonyms

Austrian pine matai Prumnopitys taxifolia Podocarpus spicata miro Prumnopitys ferruginea Podocarpus ferruginea Japanese black pine Pinus thunbergii Jeffrey pine Jeffrey's pine Pinus jeffreyi Pinus nigra

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