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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declare

UK /dɪˈklɛə/ · US /dɪˈklɛɚ/ verb

Forms declares declaring declared declarest declaredst declareth

  1. verb (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
  2. verb (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically. “He declared him innocent.”
  3. verb (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
  4. verb (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
  5. verb (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result “Houghton and Sunderland South was the first constituency to declare in the 2015 general election.”
  6. verb (cricket) The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out. “He declared at 689-7.”
  7. verb (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content. “The counter "i" was declared as an integer.”
  8. verb (grand strategy games, slang) To declare war. [with on] “France declared on me, I'm finished!”

Synonyms

disclose make known announce forerun blare herald impart publish proclaim promulgate promulge divulge assert asseverate attest aver avouch avow certify claim adjudge hold

Antonyms

deinitialize dissolve

Etymology

From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make clear; to free from obscurity. [Obs.] "To declare this a little." Boyle.
  2. verb To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.
  3. verb To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; --often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.
  4. verb To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.

Etymology [F. déclarer, from L. declarare; de + clarare to make clear, clarus, clear, bright. See Clear.]

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

Sanskrit

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