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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been

/ˈbɪn/ verb

Also a form of be bee

  1. verb (Southern US or African-American Vernacular) remote past form of be. “He been had that job.”
  2. verb (Southern US or African-American Vernacular, rare) Synonym of be (infinitival sense). “It useta been five foot long.”

Synonyms

be

Etymology

From Middle English been (past participle), from Old English (ġe)bēon. By surface analysis, be + -en.

Either from Middle English been (“to be”, infinitive) (from Old English bēon, equivalent to be + -en (infinitive ending)), or from a dialectal use of the preceding past tense form as an infinitive form (compare dialectal use of (I)'s, (I) is in the first person, (he) am in the third person, etc).

From Middle English been (plural indicative form); equivalent to be + -en (plural present ending).

From Middle English been, bene, ben, beon, from Old English bēon (“bees”), equivalent to bee + -en (plural ending).

Webster’s 1913

  1. participle The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee.

Etymology [OE. beon, ben, bin, p. p. of been, beon, to be. See Be.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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