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.

offshore

/ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/ adjective, adverb, verb, noun

Forms offshores offshoring offshored off-shore

adjective Moving away from the shore.
adjective Located in the sea away from the coast. “an offshore oil rig”
adjective Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs.
adverb Away from the shore.
adverb At some distance from the shore.
verb (transitive) To move industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, in order to seek lower business costs, such as labor.
noun An area of or portion of sea away from the shore.
noun An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.
noun Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country.

Synonyms

From off- + shore.

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