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.

never

UK /ˈnɛv.ə/ · US /ˈnɛv.ɚ/ adverb, verb, interjection

Forms neva nevah nevuh neber ne'er nev'r neuer

adverb At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance. “I finally finished, and I never do wanna do it again.”
adverb Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously.
adverb (colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely). “The police say I stole the car, but I never did it.”
verb (Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary) Did not; didn't.
interjection A statement of defiance “‘Guess what, I've won the pools!’ ‘Never!’”

Synonyms

From Middle English nevere, navere, nævere, from Old English nǣfre (“never”), equivalent to ne + ever.

adverb Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future. Shak.
adverb In no degree; not in the least; not. Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the worse. South.

Etymology [AS. n; ne not, no + ever.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “never”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “never” (best matches first).

अपूर्वेण a-pūrveṇa never before.
नकीम् na-kīm not, not at all, never;
नतराम् natarām a strong negative particle equivalent to ‘not at all,’ ‘never.’
सनात् sanāt ‘from ancient times,’ of old, always, eternally, perpetually, ever, ( na sanāt, never.)
असूर्यम्पश्या a-sūryam-paśyā the wife of a king who being shut up in the inner apartments never sees the sun, a chaste and loyal wife.
नकिस् na-kis not, not at all, never, (a little stronger than in the simple na ); no one, nobody; (also written na-kir. )
निमिष् ni-miṣ winking or twinkling of the eye; shutting the eyes, falling asleep; a-nimiṣ, ṭ, ṭ, ṭ, never closing or winki…
पुरा purā in former times, formerly, of old, in the olden time, in the days of old, of yore; before, hitherto, up to t…