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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undertake

UK /ˌʌndəˈteɪk/ · US /ˌʌndɚˈteɪk/ verb, noun

Forms undertakes undertaking undertook undertaken undirtake

  1. verb (transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on. “They undertook the new venture, not sure where it would lead.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.). “He undertook to exercise more in future.”
  3. verb (UK, informal) To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.
  4. verb (archaic, intransitive) To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.
  6. verb (obsolete) To assume, as a character; to take on.
  7. verb (obsolete) To engage with; to attack, take on in a fight.
  8. verb (obsolete) To have knowledge of; to hear.
  9. noun (UK, informal) The passing of slower traffic on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.

Synonyms

tackle take on set about attempt guarantee contract take in charge

Antonyms

overtake

Etymology

From Middle English undertaken; equivalent to under- + take (after undernim).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
  2. verb Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract.
  3. verb To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province.
  4. verb To venture; to hazard. [Obs.]

Etymology [Under + take.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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