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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convene

UK /kənˈviːn/ · US /kənˈvin/ verb

Forms convenes convening convened

  1. verb (intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
  2. verb (intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
  3. verb (transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
  4. verb (transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
  5. verb (transitive, with "on" or "upon") To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention. “To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.”

Synonyms

convoke

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, convenire (“come together”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To come together; to meet; to unite. [R.]
  2. verb To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. Locke.
  3. verb To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
  4. verb To summon judicially to meet or appear.

Etymology [L. convenire; con- + venire to come: cf. F. convenir to agree, to be fitting, OF. also, to assemble. See Come, and cf. Covenant.]

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