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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happen

/ˈhæpən/ verb, adverb

Forms happens happening happened

  1. verb (intransitive) To occur or take place. “Let me tell you how it happened.”
  2. verb (transitive, archaic) To happen to; to befall.
  3. verb (intransitive or impersonal, with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly. “Take an umbrella in case it happens to rain.”
  4. verb (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
  5. verb (informal) To become popular or trendy.
  6. adverb (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.

Synonyms

come to pass bechance befall behap belimp betide betime beworth chance come about crop up evene eventuate go on hap hold occur pass take place tide pass off fall out materialize materialise find bump encounter

Etymology

From Middle English happenen, hapnen, augmented from Middle English happen (“to come to pass, happen”), perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”). Equivalent to hap (“a chance, occurrence, byfall”) + -en (verbal suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21.
  2. verb To take place; to occur.

Etymology [OE. happenen, hapnen. See Hap to happen.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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