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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absent

/ˈæb.sn̩t/ adjective, noun, preposition, verb

Forms absenter absentest absents absenting absented abs.

  1. adjective (not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; existing but not present; (sometimes) missing. “Owing to his own illness and then his family's, Ramzi has often been absent from class this month. We will help him catch up with his studies.”
  2. adjective (not comparable) Not existing. “The body part was rudimentary or absent in 1% of specimens.”
  3. adjective (comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied. “Tom was there, but he seemed absent and withdrawn. Normally he is quite present [= engaged] during a meeting.”
  4. noun (with definite article) Something absent, especially absent people collectively; those who were or are not there.
  5. noun (obsolete, Scotland) An absentee; a person who is not there.
  6. preposition In the absence of; without; except. “Absent taxes modern governments cannot function.”
  7. verb (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away. “Most of the men are retired, jobless, or have otherwise temporarily absented themselves from the workplace.”
  8. verb (transitive, archaic) To keep (someone) away.
  9. verb (intransitive, obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.
  10. verb (transitive, rare) Leave.
  11. verb (transitive, rare) To omit.

Synonyms

remove lacking missing wanting absentminded abstracted scatty

Antonyms

present existing extant

Etymology

From Middle English absent, from Middle French absent, from Old French ausent, and their source, Latin absens, present participle of absum (“to be away from”), from ab (“away”) + sum (“to be”).

From Middle English absenten, from Old French absenter, from Late Latin absentāre (“keep away, be away”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
  2. adjective Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.
  3. verb To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; --used with the reflexive pronoun.
  4. verb To withhold from being present. [Obs.] "Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more." Milton.

Etymology [F., fr. absens, absentis, p. pr. of abesse to be away from; ab + esse to be. Cf. Sooth.]

Etymology [Cf. F. absenter.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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