Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

absentee

/ˌæb.sn̩ˈti/ noun

Forms absentees

noun A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc. “At roll-call there were three absentees.”
noun (attributive) Designating a person absent in a particular capacity, sometimes implying that they are difficult to contact, unresponsive, avoiding their responsibilities, etc. “absentee father; absentee landlord; absentee freeholder”
noun (law) A person who is absent from their residence and usual environment, and has not been seen or heard from for some period of time, so that it is unknown whether they are still alive, for the purpose of civil law dealing with the management of property etc. in such cases.
noun Something that is not present where it might be expected. “The manufacturer's promised new model was a notable absentee at the car show.”
noun (attributive) Designating something whose owner, person responsible, etc. is absent. “absentee ballot, absentee property”
noun (chiefly UK, historical) A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated.
noun A voter who is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.

Synonyms

noun One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

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

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

चिरप्रवासिन् cira-pravāsin dwelling long abroad, a long absentee.
अदेशस्थ adeśa-stha out of place, in the wrong place, one absent from his country, an absentee.