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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cumulative

/ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv/ adjective

  1. adjective Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.
  2. adjective That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.
  3. adjective (linguistics) Adding one statement to another. “cumulative conjunctions like and, both…and and as well as”
  4. adjective That tends to accumulate.
  5. adjective (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid.
  6. adjective (law) (of evidence, witnesses, etc.) Intended to illustrate an argument that has already been demonstrated excessively. “The state wants to bring in ten blood-spatter experts to testify. Your Honor, that is cumulative testimony.”

Synonyms

accumulative

Etymology

From cumulate + -ive. Compare also French cumulatif, Italian cumulativo and Spanish cumulativo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated. "As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, njt original." Bacon
  2. adjective Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.

Etymology [Cf. F. cumulatif.]

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