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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au naturel

UK /əʊ næt͡ʃʊˈɹɛl/ · US /ˌoʊ ˌnætəˈɹɛl/ adjective, adverb

  1. adjective Of a person: not wearing makeup and with one's natural hair colour. “This is my au naturel look. How do you like it?”
  2. adjective Of a person (especially a woman): having untrimmed pubic hair. “She prefers to keep her private parts au naturel.”
  3. adjective Of food: prepared or served raw or very simply cooked.
  4. adjective (sometimes humorous) Of a person: in a state of not wearing clothes; in the nude, naked. “Bella was au naturel for that photo session.”
  5. adverb Of the action of a person: in a manner without makeup and with one's natural hair colour.
  6. adverb Of the action of a person (especially a woman): in a manner with untrimmed pubic hair.
  7. adverb Of the preparation or serving of food: in a raw or very simply cooked manner. “Our chef insists on preparing this cut au naturel.”
  8. adverb (sometimes humorous) Of the action of a person: in a naked manner; without clothes; in the nude, nakedly. “Bella loved posing au naturel for the artist.”

Synonyms

all-natural bare bare-ass bare-assed bare-bottomed bare-bum bare-butt barefoot all over bare naked bareskin bare-skinned Billy bollocks bollock naked bollocky buck ass naked buck naked butt-ass naked butt-naked butt-stinking clothesless naked nude

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French au naturel (“in the natural state; cooked plainly”), from au (“at the; in the; to the”) + naturel (“natural”) (ultimately borrowed from Latin nātūrālis (“of or relating to nature”), from nātūra (“natural world, nature”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship)). Nātūra is derived from nāscor (“to be born; to grow, spring forth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)) + -tūra (suffix forming action nouns denoting activities or their results).

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