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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negotiate

UK /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/ · US /nəˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/ verb

Forms negotiates negotiating negotiated negociate

  1. verb (intransitive) To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
  2. verb (transitive) To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement. “We negotiated the contract to everyone's satisfaction.”
  3. verb (transitive) To succeed in coping with, getting over or navigate a hazard or obstacle. “We negotiated the mountain track with difficulty.”
  4. verb (transitive) To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill.
  5. verb (obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.
  6. verb (obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.

Synonyms

treat negociate talk terms

Etymology

c. 1598; borrowed from Latin negōtiātus, perfect active participle of negōtior (“to do business, trade”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from negotium (“business”) + -or, from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To transact business; to carry on trade. [Obs.] Hammond.
  2. verb To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.
  3. verb To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.
  4. verb To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.

Etymology [L. negotiatus, p.p. of negotiari, fr. negotium business; nec not + otium leisure. Cf. Neglect.]

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

Sanskrit

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