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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adjective

/ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms adjectives adjectiving adjectived

  1. noun (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent. “The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.”
  2. noun (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
  3. adjective (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
  4. adjective (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
  5. adjective (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
  6. adjective (obsolete, reflected in the chemical sense, but extinct as a general sense) Incapable of independent function.
  7. verb (transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
  8. verb (transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.

Synonyms

adjective noun adnoun describing word description word noun adjective adjectival procedural dependent derivative adjectify adjectivize

Antonyms

substantive

Etymology

From Middle English adjectif, adjective, from Old French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from adiciō + -īvus, from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + iaciō (“throw”). The Latin word adiectivus in turn was a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπιθετικόν (epithetikón, “added”), a derivative of the compound verb ἐπιτίθημι (epitíthēmi), from which also comes epithet.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence.
  2. adjective Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.
  3. noun A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.
  4. noun A dependent; an accessory. Fuller.

Etymology [See Adjective, n.]

Etymology [L. adjectivum (sc. nomen), neut. of adjectivus that is added, fr. adjicere: cf. F. adjectif. See Adject.]

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

Sanskrit

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