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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assertion

UK /əˈsɜːʃən/ · US /əˈsɜɹʃən/ noun

Forms assertions

  1. noun The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
  2. noun Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted. “You're a man of strong assertions!”
  3. noun A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence. “That's just a bare assertion.”
  4. noun Maintenance; vindication. “the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives”
  5. noun (programming) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
  6. noun (finance) The set of information that the statement preparer is providing in a financial statement audit.

Synonyms

contention accusation allegation censure charge crimination impeachment averment asseveration affirmation statement

Etymology

From Middle English assercioun, from Latin assertiō. By surface analysis, assert + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
  2. noun Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.

Etymology [L. assertio, fr. asserere.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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