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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dubious

UK /ˈd͡ʒuː.bi.əs/ · US /ˈdu.bi.əs/ adjective

Also a form of automatic

  1. adjective (of a statement, matter, or thing) Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion. “After he made some dubious claims about the company, fewer people trusted him.”
  2. adjective (of a person) In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided. “She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate.”
  3. adjective (chess, chiefly of an opening move) Generally considered imprecise or wrong, but not totally unplayable.

Synonyms

mul:?! doubtful dubitable in question

Etymology

From Latin dubius; like doubt, from Latin duo (cognate to English two), implying “two alternatives” (yes or no, true or false, etc.).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott.
  2. adjective Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.

Etymology [L. dubius, dubiosus, fr. duo two. See Two, and cf. Doubt.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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