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

grammar

UK /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈɡɹæm.ɚ/ noun, verb

Forms grammars grammaring grammared grammary grammer

  1. noun (countable and uncountable, linguistics) A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
  2. noun (uncountable, linguistics) The study of such a system.
  3. noun (uncountable) Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
  4. noun (countable) A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.
  5. noun (countable, computing theory) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
  6. noun (countable, computing theory) A formal system defining a formal language.
  7. noun (countable, figurative) The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
  8. noun (countable, UK, archaic) A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook. “a grammar of geography”
  9. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

Synonyms

glomery

Etymology

From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire. Piecewise doublet of grammatic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.
  2. noun The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.
  3. verb To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

Etymology [OE. gramere, OF. gramaire, F. grammaire Prob. fr. L. gramatica Gr Gramme, Graphic, and cf. Grammatical, Gramarye.]

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

Sanskrit

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