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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out of

/ˈaʊt əv/ preposition

Forms outta

  1. preposition From the inside to the outside of. “The audience came out of the theater.”
  2. preposition So as no longer to be in a given condition or state. “I have fallen out of love with you.”
  3. preposition (informal) From a thing or place as a source, place of origin etc. “He ate out of a big bowl.”
  4. preposition (nautical) Stating the port in which a boat has been registered. “There's the Titanic out of Liverpool.”
  5. preposition Taken from among; expressing a fraction of (a larger number); “Only three out of a thousand are born with this rare disease.”
  6. preposition (now chiefly horse breeding) Born from a given mother. “She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.”
  7. preposition Not within a given space, area etc. “His feet rested out of the water.”
  8. preposition Not in (a given state, condition). “I'm rather out of practice right now.”

Synonyms

in from of for fresh out of exterior to external to (2, 3) outside of (2, 3) without

Etymology

From Middle English oute of, from Old English ūt of.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “out of”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details