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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

thee

/ðiː/ pronoun, verb, noun

Also a form of thou

Forms thou thyself thees theeing theed the

  1. pronoun (now chiefly archaic, literary) Objective and reflexive case of thou.
  2. pronoun (now chiefly archaic, dialect) Thou.
  3. verb (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
  4. verb (intransitive) To use the word thee.
  5. verb (intransitive, UK, obsolete) To thrive; prosper.
  6. noun The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.

Synonyms

thou

Etymology

From Middle English þe, from Old English þē (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative þec), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“thee”), West Frisian dy (“thee”), German Low German di (“thee”), German dir (“thee”, dative pron.), Icelandic þér (“thee”). More at thou.

From Middle English theen (“to increase, prosper, flourish”), from Old English þēon (“to thrive, prosper, flourish, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *þinhaną (“to thrive, succeed”), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to succeed, turn out well”). Cognate with Dutch gedijen (“to flourish, thrive, prosper, succeed”), German gedeihen (“to thrive”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gaþeihan, “to increase, thrive”).

From Pitman zee, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents.

Respelling of the popularized by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To thrive; to prosper. [Obs.] "He shall never thee." Chaucer.
  2. pronoun The objective case of thou. See Thou.

Etymology [AS. ; akin to OS. thihan, D. gedijen, G. gedeihen, OHG. gidihan, Goth. , Lith. tekti to fall to the lot of. Cf. Tight, a.]

Etymology [AS. th\'c7, acc. & dat. of th\'d4 thou. See Thou.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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