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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intern

UK /ɪnˈtɜːn/ · US /ɪnˈtɝn/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms interns interning interned interne

  1. noun A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.
  2. verb (transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial. “The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.”
  3. verb (of a state, especially a neutral state) To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime. “The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.”
  4. verb (transitive, programming) To internalize.
  5. adjective (archaic) Internal.
  6. noun A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.
  7. noun A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.
  8. verb (intransitive) To work as an intern, usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, and for the purpose of furthering a program of education. “I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.”

Synonyms

interne houseman medical intern

Etymology

From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2.

From French interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), from inter (“between”); compare Etymology 1.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Internal. [Obs.] Howell.
  2. verb To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.

Etymology [L. internus: cf. F. interne. See Internal.]

Etymology [F. interne. See Intern, a.]

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