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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belong

/bɪˈlɒŋ/ verb, preposition

Forms belongs belonging belonged blung b'longta b'longa belonga blonga

  1. verb (intransitive) To have its proper place. “Where does this book belong? It belongs on the top shelf.”
  2. verb (of a person) To be accepted in a group. “You don’t belong here — get out.”
  3. verb (followed by to) To be a part of a group. “I don’t belong to the Southside Crew.”
  4. verb (informal, dated, perhaps, obsolete) To live in or be from a place.
  5. verb (intransitive, followed by to) To be the property of, or be bound to by dependency or as an attribute. “That house belongs to me.”
  6. verb (intransitive, followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of. “John wanted to ask Mary out on a date, but learned that Mary belonged to another man.”
  7. verb (intransitive, set theory) (followed by to) To be an element of (a set). The symbol ∈ means belongs to. “Suppose x belongs to #92;mathbb#123;R#125;…”
  8. verb (obsolete, transitive) To be deserved by.
  9. preposition (Australian Aboriginal, optionally followed by to) Of, belonging to.

Synonyms

go belong to

Etymology

From Middle English belongen, bilongen, from Middle English be- + longen (“to be fitting, be suitable”), from Old English langian (“to pertain to, suit”), equivalent to be- + long (“to belong”). Compare Saterland Frisian beloangje (“to attain, reach, meet”), Dutch belangen (“to concern”), German belangen (“to sue, concern”).

Compare Australian Kriol blanga, Bislama blong, Tok Pisin bilong, and Torres Strait Creole blong.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.
  2. verb To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.
  3. verb To be deserved by. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. belongen (akin to D. belangen to concern, G. belangen to attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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