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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such

/sʌt͡ʃ/ determiner, pronoun, noun, proper noun

Forms suches Suchs sich sech soch soche

  1. determiner (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context. “I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before.”
  2. determiner (particularly used in formal documents) Any. “the above address or at such other address as may be provided”
  3. determiner (degree) Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather. “Unfortunately, it wasn't such a good holiday as we thought it would be.”
  4. determiner (exclamative) Used with gradable noun phrases to form exclamations. “Such hypocrisy!”
  5. determiner (obsolete or dialectal) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
  6. pronoun A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned. “Such is life, such as it is.”
  7. noun (philosophy) Something being indicated that is similar to something else.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

what

Etymology

From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Low German sülk, sulk, suk (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; --followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.
  2. adjective Having the particular quality or character specified.

Etymology [OE. such, sich, sech, sik, swich, swilch, swulch, swilc, swulc, AS. swelc, swilc, swylc; akin to OFries. selik, D. zulk, OS. sulic, OHG. sulih, solih, G. solch, Icel. slikr, OSw. salik, Sw. slik, Dan. slig, Goth. swaleiks; originally meaning, so shaped. *192. See So, Like, a., and cf. Which.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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