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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intransitive

/ɪnˈtɹænsətɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms intransitives

  1. adjective (grammar, of a verb) Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object. “The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often."”
  2. adjective (rare) Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
  3. adjective (probability) Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game.
  4. noun (grammar) An intransitive verb.

Synonyms

neuter nontransitive intransitive verb intransitive verb form

Antonyms

transitive

Etymology

L. intransitivus: cf. F. intransitif. See In- not, and Transitive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not passing farther; kept; detained. [R.]
  2. adjective Not transitive; not passing over tas, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.

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

Sanskrit

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