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

then

/ðɛn/ adverb, adjective, noun, proper noun

Also a form of than

Forms Thens den

  1. adverb (temporal location) At that time. “He was happy then.”
  2. adverb (temporal location) Soon afterward. “He fixed it, then left.”
  3. adverb (sequence) Next in order of place. “There are three green ones, then a blue one.”
  4. adverb In addition; also; besides.
  5. adverb (conjunctive) In that case. “If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key.”
  6. adverb (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand. “That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one.”
  7. adverb (UK, dialect, affirmation) Used to contradict an assertion.
  8. adjective (attributive) Being so at that time.
  9. noun That time. “It will be finished before then.”
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

at the time back in the day and then and so subsequently so accordingly concurrently followed by as a result therewhile ensuingly followingly hereafter syne

Antonyms

before previously prior to

Etymology

From Middle English then(ne), than(ne), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (“then, at that time”), from Proto-West Germanic *þan, from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that (time), then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”).
Cognate with Dutch dan (“then”), German dann (“then”), Swedish då (“then”), Icelandic þá (“then”). Doublet of than.

* As a south German surname, from the personal name Thön, a form of Anthony.
* Also as a German surname, a variant of Ten, occupational surname for a mintmaster, from obsolete Middle Low German ten, tene (“blank; disk from which a coin is made”), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“metal rod”), or perhaps otherwise from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”).
* Also as a German name, from the noun Tenne (“threshing-floor”).
* As a Chinese surname, a Romanization of 鄧 /邓 (dèng) (see Deng) and 田 (tián) (see Tian).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb At that time (referring to a time specified, either past or future).
  2. adverb Soon afterward, or immediately; next; afterward.
  3. conjunction Than. [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. conjunction In that case; in consequence; as a consequence; therefore; for this reason.

Etymology [Originally the same word as than. See Than.]

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

Sanskrit

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