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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renter

noun, verb

Forms renters rentering rentered

  1. noun One who rents property or other goods from another.
  2. noun (law) One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.
  3. noun (UK, slang) (Synonym of rent boy) Male prostitute.
  4. noun (informal) A film worth renting, but not possibly worth visiting a cinema to see.
  5. verb To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
  6. verb To restore the original design of (a tapestry) by working in new warp.

Synonyms

lessee tenant rentee lessor landlord rentor

Etymology

Borrowed from French rentraire; Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + in (“into, in”) + trahere (“to draw”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who rents or leases an estate; --usually said of a lessee or tenant.
  2. verb To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
  3. verb To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; --said with reference to tapestry.

Etymology [F. rentraire; L. pref. re- re- + in into, in + trahere to draw.]

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