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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d

/diː/ numeral, noun, proper noun, interjection

Forms ds d's

  1. numeral The fourth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
  2. noun (Unicode) Canonical decomposition
  3. proper noun (with “The”) The City of Detroit.
  4. interjection (euphemistic) Damn.
  5. noun (snooker) The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
  6. noun (soccer) The penalty arc on a football pitch.
  7. noun (field hockey) The penalty arc on a hockey field.
  8. noun (education, chiefly Canada, US) A grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C.
  9. proper noun (computer languages) A programming language inspired from C++.

Synonyms

dec vitamin D calciferol viosterol ergocalciferol cholecalciferol five hundred 500

Antonyms

R

Etymology

From the Old English lower case letter d, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case d of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ.

* (British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin.
* (dice): abbreviation of dice
# Abbreviation of died or death.
#: William Shakespeare, d 1616

From Old English D, a 7th century replacement by Latin upper case letter D of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ (d, “daeg”).

Abbreviations.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “d”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details