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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mandatory

UK /ˈmæn.də.t(ə)ɹi/ · US /ˈmæn.dəˌtɔɹ.i/ adjective, noun

Forms mandatories

  1. adjective obligatory; required or commanded by authority. “Attendance at a school is usually mandatory for children.”
  2. adjective Of, being or relating to a mandate. “Mandatory Palestine”
  3. noun (disc golf) A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
  4. noun (dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.

Synonyms

compulsory obligatory binding compulsatory decretory forced imperative involuntary nonoptional required unbewised unvoluntary mando mandatary mandate

Antonyms

optional elective discretionary facultative free noncompulsory nonmandatory nonobligate nonobligatory nonrequired nonrequisite optionary

Etymology

From Late Latin mandatorius (“of or belonging to a mandator”), from mandātor (“one who commands”), equivalent to mandate + -ory; see mandate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
  2. noun Same as Mandatary.

Etymology [L. mandatorius.]

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