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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pass by

UK /pɑːs ˈbaɪ/ · US /pæs ˈbaɪ/ verb

Forms passes by passing by passed by

  1. verb (intransitive) To travel past without stopping. “I noticed my wife pass by with a bag of shopping.”
  2. verb (intransitive, of a period of time) To elapse. “Nearly a year had passed by since I first laid eyes on him.”
  3. verb (transitive) To travel past (something) without stopping. “It was hard to stick to my diet all weekend, especially when I passed by the pastry shop.”
  4. verb (figurative, transitive) to ignore; to disregard. “I had the distinct worry that happiness would pass me by.”
  5. verb (Philippines) To drop by.

Synonyms

go by overgo pass go past discount disregard ignore misregard unheed fly by forpass forthglide roll on slip by transpass travel by surpass

Antonyms

examine pay attention recognize

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “pass by”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details