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.

clank

UK /klænk/ · US /klæŋk/ noun, verb

Forms clanks clanking clanked

noun A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
noun (derogatory, humorous) Synonym of clanker (“a robot or artificial intelligence”).
verb (intransitive) To make a clanking sound “The chains clanked.”
verb (transitive) To cause to sound with a clank. “The prisoners clank their chains.”

Synonyms

Onomatopoeic.

noun A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; --usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
verb To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.
verb To sound with a clank.

Etymology [Akin to clink, and of imitative origin; cf. G. klang sound, D. klank. Cf. Clang.]

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