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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

from

/ˈfɹɒm/ preposition

Forms frome

  1. preposition Used to indicate source or provenance. “Paul is from New Zealand.”
  2. preposition Originating at (a year, time, etc.) “This manuscript is from the 1980s.”
  3. preposition Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference. “He had books piled from floor to ceiling.”
  4. preposition Indicating a starting point in time. “The working day runs from 9 am to 5 pm.”
  5. preposition Indicating a starting point on a range or scale. “Rate your pain from 1 to 10.”
  6. preposition Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations. “You can study anything from math to literature.”
  7. preposition With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point. “It's hard to tell from here.”
  8. preposition (MLE) Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being. “I’ve been doing this from pickney.”

Synonyms

out of take away

Antonyms

to

Etymology

From Middle English from (“from”), from Old English from, fram (“forward, from”), from Proto-West Germanic *fram, from Proto-Germanic *fram (“forward, from, away”). Cognate with Old Saxon fram (“from”) and Old High German fram (“from”), Danish frem (“forth, forward”), Danish fra (“from”), Swedish fram (“forth, forward”), Swedish från (“from”), Norwegian Nynorsk fram (“forward”), Norwegian Nynorsk frå (“from”), Icelandic fram (“forward, on”), Icelandic frá (“from”), Albanian pre, prej. More at fro.

Webster’s 1913

  1. preposition Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; --used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; --the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Spr

Etymology [AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. & Icel. fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan. frem, Goth. fram from, prob. akin to E. forth. Fro, Foremost.]

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

Sanskrit

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