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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discourage

UK /dɪsˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒ/ · US /dɪsˈkɝɪd͡ʒ/ verb, noun

Forms discourages discouraging discouraged

  1. verb (transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject. “Don't be discouraged by the amount of work left to do: you'll finish it in good time.”
  2. verb (transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).
  3. noun (rare) Lack of courage

Synonyms

dash daunt deter dissuade cowardliness warn admonish monish

Antonyms

encourage

Etymology

From Middle French descourager (modern French décourager), from Old French descouragier, from des- and corage. By surface analysis, dis- + courage.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; --the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
  2. verb To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
  3. noun Lack of courage; cowardliness.

Etymology [Pref. dis- + courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. décourager: pref. des- (L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See Courage.]

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