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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defective

/dɪˈfɛktɪv/ adjective, adverb, noun

Forms defectives

  1. adjective Having one or more defects. “If the workmanship is defective, they'll replace the shoes with a new pair.”
  2. adjective (grammar, of a lexeme, especially a verb) Lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
  3. adjective (Arabic grammar, of a verb) Having a root whose final consonant is weak (ي, و, or ء).
  4. adjective (orthography, of a script) Not capable of representing all the phonemic distinctions of a language it is used to write.
  5. adjective (chiefly of abjad script) Spelled without matres lectionis, for example אמץ (ómets, “courage”) as opposed to the plene spelling אומץ where the letter vav ⟨ו⟩ indicates the vowel o.
  6. adverb (chiefly of abjad script) Without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
  7. noun A person or thing considered to be defective.
  8. noun (chiefly of abjad script) A word written without matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).

Synonyms

faulty bad

Antonyms

complete perfect undefective plene

Etymology

From Middle English defectif, defective, from Old French defectif, from Late Latin dēfectīvus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; --applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.
  2. adjective Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.

Etymology [L. defectivus: cf. F. défectif. See Defect.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “defective” (best matches first).

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