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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fluent

UK /ˈfluːənt/ · US /ˈfluənt/ adjective, noun

Forms fluents

  1. adjective That flows; flowing, liquid. “fluent handwriting”
  2. adjective Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently. “She's fluent in French.”
  3. adjective (programming) Being or relating to a fluent interface. “The payment processor offers a fluent API.”
  4. noun (mathematics, obsolete) A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.

Synonyms

fluid runny liquid smooth eloquent facile silver silver-tongued smooth-spoken

Antonyms

laborious

Etymology

From Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“to flow”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
  2. adjective Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; --said of language; as, fluent speech.
  3. noun A current of water; a stream. [Obs.]
  4. noun A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; - -called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.

Etymology [L. fluens, -entis, p.pr. of fluere to flow; cf. Gr. Fluctuate, Flux.]

Etymology [Cf. F. fluente.]

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