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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determiner

UK /dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nə(ɹ)/ · US /dɪˈtɝ.mɪ.nɚ/ noun

Forms determiners

  1. noun A factor that defines something, or one among several that define it. “In quality management, the determiners of quality sometimes differ across use cases.”
  2. noun Someone or something (especially a sentient agent) that determines; a decider of a disposition. “He is the determiner [usually referring to God (in theological contexts) and job roles (in administrative contexts)]”
  3. noun A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. “Definite articles, indefinite articles, and cardinal numbers acting as quantifiers are types of determiners.”
  4. noun A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun. “In the sentence "Many people voted for him," the word many is a determiner.”

Synonyms

definer decider decisor disposer arbiter arbitrator decisionmaker determinative[Appendix:Glossary clincher determining factor determinative determinant causal factor

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, determines or decides.

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