Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

fieldwork

UK /ˈfiːldwɜːk/ · US /ˈfildwɝk/ noun

Forms fieldworks field work

noun (uncountable, agriculture) Work done out in the fields as opposed to that done elsewhere on the farm (e.g., barn, house, outbuildings, office). “Besides the bookkeeping and marketing, there's a ton of fieldwork to get done this week.”
noun (uncountable) Work done out in the real world rather than in controlled conditions. “That well Bob set up last weekend was some good fieldwork.”
noun (in scientific research) The collection of raw data in the field. “I thought the fieldwork in the course I was taking was going to be hard, but it was just interviewing people.”
noun (countable, rare) A temporary fortification built by troops in the field; a defensive earthwork in the field. “Billy's out building some fieldwork so that our enemies don't walk right over us.”

Synonyms

From Middle English *felde-werk (found in plural felde werkes), equivalent to field + work.

noun Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; --commonly in the plural.

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