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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damn

/ˈdæm/ verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, noun

Forms damns damning damned damnest damnedst damneth

  1. verb (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn. “The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.”
  2. verb To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
  3. verb To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively. “I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.”
  4. verb To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
  5. verb (slang, slightly vulgar) To curse; put a curse upon. “That man stole my wallet. Damn him!”
  6. verb (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
  7. adjective (slang, slightly vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody. “Shut the damn door!”
  8. adverb (slang, slightly vulgar) Very; extremely. “That car was going damn fast!”
  9. interjection (slang, vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.
  10. noun The word "damn" employed as a curse. “He said a few damns and left.”
  11. noun (chiefly in the negative) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot. “The new hires aren't worth a damn.”
  12. noun (chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration. “I don't give a damn.”

Synonyms

convict doom anathematize demonize excoriate vilify comminate execrate imprecate ban point the bone 4ucking accursed bally blasted bleeding bleeping blessed blimming blinking darn hoot red cent shit shucks tinker's damn tinker's dam curse beshrew bedamn

Etymology

From Middle English dampnen, from Old French damner, from Latin damnāre (“to condemn, inflict loss upon”), from damnum (“loss”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censhure.
  2. verb To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
  3. verb To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn." Goldsmith.

Etymology [OE. damnen dap), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. Condemn, Damage.]

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