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.

nark

UK /nɑːk/ · US /nɑːɹk/ noun, verb

Forms narks narking narked narc

noun (UK, Ireland) A police spy or informer.
noun (Australia) An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others.
verb (transitive, intransitive, slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer; to tattle. ““If you nark on me, I’ll rip your arms off,” said Tim to his brother, as he passed him a joint.”
verb (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate. “It really narks me when people smoke in restaurants.”
verb (intransitive, slang) To complain. “He narks in my ear all day, moaning about his problems.”
verb (transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop. “Nark it! I hear someone coming!”

Synonyms

Uncertain. Perhaps from Angloromani nok (“nose”), from Romani nakh, from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀡𑀓𑁆𑀓 (ṇakka), ultimately a doublet of nose.

See narc.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “nark”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details