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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recently

UK /ˈɹiːsənt.li/ · US /ˈɹi.sənt.li/ adverb

  1. adverb (referring to a point of time in the recent past) a short while ago. “My recently published book about the life stories of recently-arrived immigrants.”
  2. adverb (referring to a time period starting in the recent past and including the present) in recent times. “I haven't been sleeping well recently.”

Synonyms

newly lately freshly as of late just now just then late latterly novelly of late

Antonyms

long ago long since oldly soon

Etymology

From recent + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.

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

Sanskrit

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

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