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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adapt

/əˈdæpt/ verb, adjective

Forms adapts adapting adapted

  1. verb (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
  2. verb (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust. “to adapt a story for the stage”
  3. verb (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character. “to bring out a play adapted from the French”
  4. verb (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing. “They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.”
  5. adjective Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.

Synonyms

proportion accommodate adjust conform

Etymology

From Middle English *adapten (attested in Middle English adapted (past participle)), from Latin adaptāre (“to fit to”), from ad- (“to”) + aptāre (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Fitted; suited. [Obs.] Swift.
  2. verb To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; --sometimes followed by to or for. For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight.

Etymology [L. adaptare; ad + aptare to fit; cf. F. adapter. See Apt, Adept.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “adapt”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “adapt” (best matches first).