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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consensual

/kənˈsɛnʃuəl/ adjective

Forms consentual con-sensual

  1. adjective With permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting. “consensual sex”
  2. adjective (law) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties. “a consensual contract”
  3. adjective (biology) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition. “consensual motions”
  4. adjective Contralaterally corresponding rather than ipsilaterally induced. “direct and consensual pupillary reflexes produce bilateral constriction from a unilateral stimulus”

Antonyms

non-consensual

Etymology

From consensus + -ual.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
  2. adjective Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions. Consensual contract (Law), a contract formed merely by consent, as a marriage contract.

Etymology [See Consent, v. i., and cf. Sensual.]

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