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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belonging

UK /bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ/ · US /bɪˈlɔŋɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of belong

Forms belongings

  1. noun (uncountable) The feeling that one belongs. “I have a feeling of belonging in London.”
  2. noun (countable, chiefly in the plural) Something physical that is owned. “Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.”
  3. noun (plural only, colloquial, dated) Family; relations; household.

Synonyms

possession thing

Etymology

From belong + -ing.

From Middle English belonginge, belanging, belangand, equivalent to belong + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak.
  2. noun That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.

Etymology [Commonly in the pl.]

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

Sanskrit

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