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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apt

/æpt/ adjective, proper noun

Also a form of apartment

Forms apter aptest apts apt.

  1. adjective Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited. “an apt metaphor”
  2. adjective (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
  3. adjective Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn. “a pupil apt to learn”
  4. proper noun A surname from German or Yiddish.
  5. proper noun A commune of Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Synonyms

appropriate meet suitable applicable apposite ad rem well-placed felicitous germane in point material on point on-topic pertinent relevant salient to the point valid allowable apropos disposed given minded tending liable clever

Etymology

From Old French apte, from Latin aptus (“suitable, fitting”). Either from obsolete apere (“to fasten, to join, to fit”), akin to apisci (“to reach, attain”) (compare with Greek ἅπτειν (áptein, “to fasten”) and Sanskrit आप्त (āpta, “fit”), from आप् (āp, “to reach, attain”)) or from *h₂ep- (“to join, fit (in)”).

* A variant of Abt, a surname of German origin.
* Borrowed from Yiddish אַפּט (apt), a habitational surname from the town of Opatów, in Poland.

Webster’s 1913

  1. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
  2. Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; --used of things.
  3. verb To fit; to suit; to adapt. [Obs.] " To apt their places." B. Jonson.

Etymology [F. apte, L. aptus, fr. obsolete apere to fasten, to join, to fit, akin to apisci to reach, attain: cf. Gr. apta fit, fr. ap to reach attain.]

Etymology [L. aptare. See Aptate.]

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

Sanskrit

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