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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sharply

UK /ˈʃɑːpli/ · US /ˈʃɑɹpli/ adverb

Forms sharplier sharpliest

  1. adverb So as to terminate in a sharp point or edge. “The stick was sharply tapered at one end.”
  2. adverb Rapidly, abruptly. “When I touched the snake it recoiled sharply.”
  3. adverb (to describe breathing) Suddenly and intensely like a gasp, but typically as the result of an emotional reaction.
  4. adverb Precisely, accurately. “a sharply focused essay”
  5. adverb Quickly and alertly. “Jones, the centre forward, started the game sharply.”
  6. adverb Of speech, sternly, harshly or critically. “When I asked her about her husband, she replied sharply that she had not seen him for several months.”
  7. adverb Stylishly, smartly. “He was sharply dressed in an expensive suit.”
  8. adverb So as to form a sharp, or tight, angle. “Turn sharply to the right.”

Synonyms

aggressively crisply sharp acutely precipitously

Etymology

From Middle English sharply, scharply, from Old English sċearplīċe (“sharply, smartly”), equivalent to sharp + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely.

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

Sanskrit

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