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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finally

/ˈfaɪ.nə.li/ adverb

  1. adverb At the end or conclusion; ultimately. “The contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.”
  2. adverb At bottom; ultimately; when all is considered.
  3. adverb (sequence) To finish (with); lastly (in the present). “Finally, I washed my dog.”
  4. adverb (manner) Definitively, comprehensively. “The question of his long-term success has now been finally settled.”

Synonyms

eventually in the end at last at length endly last lastly ultimately completely thoroughly totally absolutely all-out tout à fait all the way stone-cold blind altogether stark cold at long last in conclusion

Antonyms

initially medially

Etymology

From Middle English finally, fynaly, fynally, fynaliche, fynalliche, equivalent to final + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.
  2. adverb Completely; beyond recovery.

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

Sanskrit

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

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