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 over

verb

Forms passes over passing over passed over

  1. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, over. “Could you pass the condiments over, please?”
  2. verb (transitive with over as adverbial particle) To bypass or disregard in favour of someone or something else. “I can't believe they passed you over for promotion.”
  3. verb To bypass (something); to skip (something). “Let's pass over that topic for now.”
  4. verb To make a transit of; to pass through or across (something).
  5. verb To overlook; not to note or resent.
  6. verb (intransitive with over as adverbial particle, euphemistic) To die and thus progress to the afterlife.

Synonyms

fly over overfly bypass ignore jump omit skip cover cross traverse cross over die fall asleep pass pass away pass on skip over transit pass through move through pass across track get over get across cut through cut across wipe

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