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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international

UK /ˌɪn.təˈnæʃ.(ə.)n(ə)l/ · US /ˌɪn.(t)ɚˈnæʃ.(ə.)n(ə)l/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms int'l intl intl. internationals

  1. adjective Between or among nations. “an international discussion”
  2. adjective Participated in by two or more nations. “an international competition”
  3. adjective Common to, or affecting, two or more nations. “an international rule”
  4. adjective Serving two or more nations. “an international airport”
  5. adjective Of or concerning the association called the International.
  6. adjective Independent of national boundaries; common to all people. “The atmosphere is an international resource.”
  7. adjective Foreign; of another nation. “an international student”
  8. noun (sports, chiefly UK, Ireland, Australia) Someone who has represented their country in a particular sport. “The United team includes five England internationals.”
  9. noun (sports, chiefly Britain, Ireland, Australia) A game or contest between two or more nations.
  10. noun (politics) A transnational organization of political parties of similar ideology.
  11. proper noun A make of truck and other vehicles formerly manufactured by International Harvester.

Synonyms

external outside

Antonyms

national

Etymology

From inter- + national. Introduced in modern English by Jeremy Bentham in his An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1780.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations.
  2. adjective Of or concerning the association called the International.
  3. noun The International; an abbreviated from of the title of the International Workingmen's Association, the name of an association, formed in London in 1864, which has for object the promotion of the interests of the industrial classes of all nations.
  4. noun A member of the International Association.

Etymology [Pref. inter- + national: cf. F. international.]

Etymology [Cf. F. internationale.]

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