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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

observer

UK /əbˈzɜːvə/ · US /əbˈzɝvɚ/ noun

Forms observers

  1. noun One who makes observations, monitors or takes notice. “Most impartial observers agreed that Sampras had not served well.”
  2. noun One who adheres or follows laws, guidelines, etc. “I shall be an observer of the local customs.”
  3. noun A person sent as a representative, to a meeting or other function to monitor but not to participate. “The UN sent many observers to the country's first elections.”
  4. noun A country or other entity which has limited participation rights within an organization. “The Vatican and Palestine have observer status at the UN.”
  5. noun (military) A crew member on an aircraft who makes observations of enemy positions or aircraft. “The only crew-member to survive the crash was the Canadian observer.”
  6. noun (military) A sentry etc. manning an observation post. “We waited till dusk when the observers' vision was poorest.”
  7. noun (motor racing) Synonym of spotter.

Synonyms

beholder observator onlooker spotter perceiver percipient commentator

Antonyms

observee

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer.
  2. noun One who keeps any law, custom, regulation, rite, etc.; one who conforms to anything in practice. "Diligent observers of old customs." Spenser.

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

Sanskrit

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

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