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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

affirmative

UK /əˈfɜːmətɪv/ · US /əˈfɝməɾɪv/ adjective, noun, interjection

Forms affirmatives

  1. adjective pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming “an affirmative answer”
  2. adjective pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
  3. adjective positive “an affirmative vote”
  4. adjective Confirmative; ratifying. “an act affirmative of common law”
  5. adjective Dogmatic.
  6. adjective (logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
  7. adjective (algebra) positive; not negative
  8. noun Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance. “That’s an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters.”
  9. noun (grammar) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
  10. noun (obsolete) An assertion.
  11. interjection Yes.
  12. interjection (military, especially radio communications) Yes; true; correct.

Synonyms

affirmatory optimistic approving approbative approbatory plausive

Antonyms

negative

Etymology

From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.
  2. adjective That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering "yes" to a question; --opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote.
  3. noun That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; --opposed to Ant: negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative.
  4. noun A word or phrase expressing affirmation or assent; as, yes, that is so, etc.

Etymology [L. affirmativus: cf. F. affirmatif.]

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

Sanskrit

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