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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uncertain

UK /ʌnˈsɜːtən/ · US /ʌnˈsɜɹ.tən/ adjective, noun

Forms uncertainer uncertainest

  1. adjective Not certain; unsure.
  2. adjective Not known for certain; questionable. “Tomorrow's weather is uncertain.”
  3. adjective Not yet determined; undecided.
  4. adjective Variable and subject to change.
  5. adjective Fitful or unsteady.
  6. adjective Unpredictable or capricious.
  7. noun (with "the") Something uncertain; everything uncertain. “Their approach to the uncertain is laudable: they at least want to know the upper and lower bounds for what the answer could turn out to be.”

Synonyms

unascertained shaky uncertainty uncertainties unsure incertain unsealed changeable unsettled

Antonyms

certain

Etymology

From Middle English uncerteyn. By surface analysis, un- + certain.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful. Chaucer.
  2. adjective Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an uncertain person; an uncertain breeze.
  3. verb To make uncertain. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Etymology [Pref. un- + certain. Cf. Incertain.]

Etymology [1st pref. un- + certain; or fr. uncertain, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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