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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assert

UK /əˈsɜːt/ · US /əˈsɝt/ verb, noun

Forms asserts asserting asserted

  1. verb To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively. “He would often assert that there was life on other planets.”
  2. verb To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of. “Salman Rushdie has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work.”
  3. verb To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
  4. verb (reflexive) To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself. “Since going to therapy, I've found it much easier to assert myself.”
  5. verb (programming) To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
  6. verb (electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
  7. noun (programming) Synonym of assertion.

Synonyms

affirm asseverate aver avow exert assertion maintain verify swan swear put forward insist

Antonyms

remit deny deassert

Etymology

From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) + serō (“join, range in a row”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.
  2. verb To maintain; to defend. [Obs. or Archaic]

Etymology [L. assertus, p. p. of asserere to join or fasten to one's self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See Series.]

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

Sanskrit

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