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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sweeten

/ˈswiːtən/ verb, proper noun

Forms sweetens sweetening sweetened

  1. verb (transitive) To make sweet to the taste. “to sweeten tea”
  2. verb (transitive) To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings. “to sweeten life”
  3. verb (transitive) To make mild or kind; to soften. “to sweeten the temper”
  4. verb (transitive) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve. “to sweeten the cares of life”
  5. verb (transitive) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
  6. verb (transitive) To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter. “to sweeten the air”
  7. verb (transitive) To make warm and fertile. “to dry and sweeten soils”
  8. verb (agriculture, transitive) To raise the pH of (a soil) by adding alkali.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

dulcify edulcorate dulcorate

Antonyms

sour

Etymology

From sweet + -en. Eclipsed non-native Middle English doucen and endoucen, borrowed from Old French adoucir and endoucir (“to sweeten”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
  2. verb To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
  3. verb To become sweet. Bacon.

Etymology [See Sweet, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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