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.

dali

/ˈdɑːli/ noun, proper noun

Forms Tali Ta-li

noun A timber tree (genus Myristica) of Guiana, whose wood is used for staves etc.
proper noun A surname from Catalan.
proper noun Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish artist.
proper noun A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
proper noun A Bai autonomous prefecture in Yunnan province, China.
proper noun A city in Yunnan, China.
proper noun A town in Dali city, Yunnan, China.
proper noun A town in Foshan city, Guangdong province, China.

Synonyms

From Catalan Dalí, possibly from dalí (“stick for fording”), from Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl, “sign, guide”).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大荔 (Dàlì).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大理 (Dàlǐ).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大瀝 /大沥 (Dàlì).

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