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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immigrant

/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/ noun, adjective

Forms immigrants

  1. noun A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there. “Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.”
  2. noun A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
  3. adjective Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

Antonyms

emigrant

Etymology

From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) + migrāre (“to migrate”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; --correlative of emigrant.

Etymology [L. immigrans, p. pr. of immigrare to go into: cf. F. immigrant. See Immigrate.]

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