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.

narrate

UK /nəˈɹeɪt/ · US /ˈnæɹeɪt/ verb

Forms narrates narrating narrated

verb (transitive) To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing. “narrate a story”
verb To give an account. “narrate the meeting”

Synonyms

In English (recorded only since 1656, but until the 19th century stigmatized as 'Scottish') apparently from narration.

Etymology [L. narratus, p. p. of narrare to narrate, prob. for gnarigare, fr. gnarus knowing. See Ignore, Know.]

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

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

श्वल्क् śvalk śvalkayati, -yitum, to tell, narrate.
समभिकॄत् sam-abhi-kṝt -kīrtayati, -yitum, to relate, tell, narrate.
व्यावर्ण् vy-ā-varṇ -varṇayati, -yitum, to enumerate, describe, narrate.
अनुकॄत् anu-kṝt -kīrtayati, -yitum, to relate after (or in order), to narrate.
संवर्ण् saṃ-varṇ -varṇayati, -yitum, to communicate, relate, narrate, tell; to praise.
उपाख्या upā-khyā -khyāti, -tum, to tell a story, narrate; to relate or give an account about anything (with acc.); to observe…
शुल्क् śulk śulkayati, -yitum, to pay, give; to gain, acquire; to abandon, leave, forsake; to create ( sarjane ); to nar…
सङ्कथ् saṅ-kath -kathayati, -yitum, to relate or narrate fully, tell, communicate, inform; to explain; to speak about or of …