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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remark

UK /ɹɪˈmɑːk/ · US /ɹɪˈmɑɹk/ noun, verb

Forms remarks remarking remarked

  1. noun An act of pointing out or noticing; notice or observation.
  2. noun An expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; a mention of something “make a remark”
  3. noun A casual observation, comment, or statement
  4. verb (transitive) To pay heed to; notice; to take notice of, to perceive. “I remarked a certain twang in his southern pronunciation.”
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To pass comment on (something); to indicate, point out.
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To mark (someone or something) out; to distinguish, to make notable.
  7. verb (transitive, with clause as object) To express in words or writing; to state, as an observation. “He remarked that it was getting late.”
  8. verb (intransitive, with preposition on) To make a remark or remarks on, to comment on (something).

Synonyms

add comment mention notice observe input note point out

Etymology

From Middle French remarquer, from Old French remarquer, from re- (“again”) + marquer (“to mark”), equivalent to re- (“again”) + mark.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out. [Obs.]
  2. verb To take notice of, or to observe, mentally; as, to remark the manner of a speaker.
  3. verb To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
  4. noun Act of remarking or attentively noticing; notice or observation.

Etymology [F. remarquer; pref. re- re- + marquer to mark, marque a mark, of German origin, akin to E. mark. See Mark, v.& n.]

Etymology [Cf. F. remarque.]

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

Sanskrit

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