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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hefty

/ˈhɛfti/ adjective, proper noun

Forms heftier heftiest Heftys

  1. adjective With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive “He can throw a hefty punch.”
  2. adjective Strong; bulky. “They use some hefty bolts to hold up road signs.”
  3. adjective (of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built. “He was a tall, hefty man.”
  4. adjective Heavy, weighing a lot. “She carries a hefty backpack full of books.”
  5. adjective (of a number or amount) Large, healthy. “That's going to cost you a hefty sum.”
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

brawny muscular powerful sinewy goodly goodish healthy respectable sizable sizeable tidy

Etymology

19th century. From heft (“weight”) + -y.
The similarity with German heftig (“vigorous, violent, intense”) is apparently coincidental. From the German are Dutch, Danish, Norwegian heftig, Swedish häftig.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Moderately heavy. [Colloq. U. S.]

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