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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passenger

UK /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒə/ · US /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ noun, verb

Forms passengers passengering passengered

  1. noun One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
  2. noun (informal, chiefly UK) Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
  3. noun (falconry) A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
  4. noun (obsolete) A migratory bird, a bird of passage.
  5. noun (obsolete) A passer-by; a wayfarer.
  6. noun (obsolete) A ship carrying passengers, a ferryboat.
  7. noun A moth, Dysgonia algira
  8. noun (military) Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.
  9. verb (intransitive) To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.

Synonyms

inmate rider

Etymology

From Old French passagier with intrusive n (see etymology of messenger).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. Shak.
  2. noun A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. Passenger falcon (Zoöl.), a migratory hawk.

Etymology [OE. & F. passager. See Passage, and cf. Messenger.]

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

Sanskrit

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