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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alone

UK /əˈləʊn/ · US /əˈloʊn/ adjective, adverb

  1. adjective By oneself, solitary. “I can't ask for help because I am alone.”
  2. adjective Not involved in a romantic relationship.
  3. adjective (predicatively, chiefly in the negative) Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc. “Senator Craddock wants to abolish the estate tax, and she's not alone.”
  4. adjective (obsolete) Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Mere; consisting of nothing further.
  6. adjective (obsolete) Unique; rare; matchless.
  7. adverb By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo. “She walked home alone.”
  8. adverb Without outside help. “The job was too hard for me to do alone.”
  9. adverb Not permitting anything further; exclusively. “The president alone has the power to initiate a nuclear launch.”
  10. adverb Not requiring anything further; merely. “Oral antibiotics alone won't clear the infection.”
  11. adverb (by extension) Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset. “Her wardrobe is huge. She has three racks for blazers alone.”

Synonyms

on one's own unaccompanied available single unattached unpartnered deserted forsaken isolated exclusive sole simple only very bare just mere nonpareil peerless unparalleled lone lonely solitary unique unequaled unequalled entirely exclusively solely solo

Etymology

From Middle English allone, from earlier all oon (literally “all one”), contracted from the Old English phrase eall ān (“completely alone”), equivalent to al- (“all”) + one. Cognate with Scots alane (“alone”), Saterland Frisian alleene (“alone”), West Frisian allinne (“alone”), Dutch alleen (“alone”), Low German alleen (“alone”), German allein (“alone”), Danish alene (“alone”), Swedish allena (“alone”). More at all and one. For the different phonological development of alone and one, see the note in one.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; --applied to a person or thing.
  2. adjective Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.
  3. adverb Solely; simply; exclusively.

Etymology [All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. an one, alone. See All, One, Lone.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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