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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grow

/ˈɡɹəʊ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms grows growing grew growed grown growe

  1. verb (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude. “Children grow quickly.”
  2. verb (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere). “Apples now grow all over the world.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To appear or sprout. “Leaf buds grew on the trees with the advance of spring.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To develop, to mature. “As I grew throughout adolescence, I came to appreciate many things about human nature.”
  5. verb (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants. “He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.”
  6. verb (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time. “The boy grew wise as he matured.”
  7. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
  8. noun An illicit cannabis farm.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

range become get go turn come fall wax mature maturate originate arise rise develop uprise spring up raise farm produce acquire

Antonyms

shrink

Etymology

From Middle English growen, from Old English grōwan (“to grow, increase, flourish, germinate”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōan, from Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow, grow green”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow, become green”).
Cognate with Dutch groeien (“to grow”), German Low German grojen (“to green; thrive; take hold; flourish”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gro (“to grow”), Faroese grógva (“to grow”), Icelandic gróa (“to grow”); also Latin grāmen (“grass, turf; herb, plant”), herba (“grass, herbage; weeds; plant”), Ukrainian гря́ний (hrjányj, “green”). Related to growth, grass, green.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; --said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
  2. verb To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
  3. verb To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco. Macaulay.

Etymology [AS. grawan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel. groa, Dan. groe, Sw. gro. Cf. Green, Grass.]

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

Sanskrit

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