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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conjugation

UK /ˌkɒnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/ · US /ˌkɑnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/ noun

Forms conjugations

  1. noun The coming together of things; a union.
  2. noun (biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction.
  3. noun (law) Sexual relations within marriage.
  4. noun (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs categorized into distinct classes based on the specific inflectional patterns they exhibit.
  5. noun (grammar) The act or process of conjugating a verb.
  6. noun (grammar) The product of that act: the conjugated forms of a verb, collected into a list or recitation.
  7. noun (grammar, sometimes proscribed) The inflection of nouns or other words besides verbs; a declension.
  8. noun (chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds.

Synonyms

junction conjunction colligation coupling mating pairing union sexual union unification uniting jointure

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coniugātiō (“combining, connecting; conjugation”), from coniugō (“join, unite together”). Equivalent to conjugate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage. [Obs.]
  2. noun Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. conjugatio conjugation (in senses 1 & 3).]

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

Sanskrit

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