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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sen

/sɛn/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of zen

Forms sens

  1. noun (Yorkshire, East Midlands) Self. “"Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ivver tha does owt fer nowt, mek sure tha does it fer thi sen."”
  2. noun A unit of Japanese currency, worth one hundredth of a yen.
  3. noun A coin of this value.
  4. noun A unit of Indonesian currency, worth one hundredth of a rupiah.
  5. noun A unit of Malaysian currency, worth one hundredth of a ringgit.
  6. noun A unit of length equal 20 wa, 40 meters.
  7. proper noun A surname from Bengali.
  8. proper noun A surname from Hindi.
  9. proper noun A surname from Khmer.

Etymology

From a syncopation of Middle English selven, selfen, variants of selfe, self. More at self.

Borrowed from Japanese 銭(せん) (sen).

From Indonesian sen, from Dutch cent, from Old French cent (“hundred”). See further etymology at cent.

From Malay sen, from English cent. See further etymology at cent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.
  2. adverb Since. [Obs.]

Etymology [See Since.]

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