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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intervene

UK /ˌɪntəˈviːn/ · US /ˌɪntɚˈvin/ verb

Forms intervenes intervening intervened

  1. verb (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. [with in] “The police had to be called to intervene in the fight.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events. “An instant intervened between the flash and the report.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay. “Nothing intervened to prevent the undertaking.”
  4. verb (ambitransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things. “The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.”
  6. verb (law) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. “an application for leave (i.e. permission) to intervene”

Synonyms

interfere step in elapse interrupt interpose

Etymology

Back-formation from intervention, and/or from Latin interveniō (“come between”, verb).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To come between, or to be between, persons or things; --followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
  2. verb To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
  3. verb To come between. [R.]
  4. noun A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Etymology [L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See Come.]

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

Sanskrit

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