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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stopped

UK /stɒpt/ · US /stɑpt/ adjective

Also a form of stop

  1. adjective (of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle. “We were stopped for more than three hours!”
  2. adjective (more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped. “A stopped clock is right twice a day.”
  3. adjective (of a pipe) Having a stop; being closed at one end.
  4. adjective (of a plant) In a well-pruned state.
  5. adjective (phonetics) Made by complete closure of the organs in the mouth; said of certain consonants such as b, d, p, and t.

Synonyms

stopped-up stopped up

Etymology

From stop + -ed. In some senses, the adjective follows from the verb; in others, it may derive directly from the noun stop.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; --said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). H. Sweet.

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

Sanskrit

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

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