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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concede

UK /kənˈsiːd/ · US /kənˈsid/ verb

Forms concedes conceding conceded

  1. verb To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant “I have to concede the argument.”
  2. verb To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
  3. verb To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
  4. verb To yield or make concession.
  5. verb (sports) To have a goal or point scored against “I don't know how they conceded that goal; their defense was so solid.”
  6. verb (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

Synonyms

capitulate give grant accede let in give up come around give way profess confess yield cede

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French conceder, from Latin concēdō (“give way, yield”), from con- (“wholly”) + cēdō (“to yield, give way, to go, grant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to go, yield”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as. to concede the point in question. Boyle.
  2. verb To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
  3. verb To yield or make concession.

Etymology [L. concedere, concessum; con- + cedere to go along, give way, yield: cf. F. concéder. See Cede.]

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

Sanskrit

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