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.

afterlife

UK /ˈɑːftəˌlaɪf/ · US /ˈæftɚˌlaɪf/ noun

Forms afterlives afterlifes

noun A conscious existence after death; a supernatural life that follows one's natural life, in some worldviews. “Many religious people believe in an afterlife.”
noun The place believed to be inhabited by people who have died. “You'll reunite later, somewhere in the afterlife.”
noun (countable, uncountable, now chiefly informal) The part of a person's life that follows a particular stage or event; later life. “They say that life begins at 40, but right now I'm more interested in the afterlife that begins at 65!”
noun The effects of a person's actions, or their reputation, after death. “The philanthropic endowment that she bequeathed gave her an ongoing afterlife.”
noun The events or situations that result from a particular event; the later reception, consumption or reworking of something, especially a cultural production such as a film, book, etc. “The 1970s TV show M*A*S*H had a long afterlife in syndication.”

Synonyms

From after- + life.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “afterlife”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details