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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obedient

UK /əˈbiːdɪənt/ · US /əˈbidiənt/ adjective, noun

Forms obedients

  1. adjective Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority; biddable. “Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.”
  2. noun One who obeys.

Synonyms

hearsome dutiful compliant bowsome buxom morigerous obedible obsequent obsequious tall toward

Antonyms

disobedient dominant argumentative breachy contumacious defiant froward immorigerous inobedient insubmissive insubordinate insurgent

Etymology

From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.

Etymology [OF. obedient, L. obediens, oboediens, -entis. p.pr. of obedire, oboedire, to obey. See Obey.]

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

Sanskrit

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