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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transgender

UK /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndə/ · US /ˌtɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndəɹ/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms transgenders transgendering transgendered trans-gender transgener xgender

  1. adjective (loosely) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender.
  2. adjective (strictly) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is opposite from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male but having a female gender, or vice versa (that is, not including a non-binary identity).
  3. adjective (loosely) Of a person: transgressing or not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female.
  4. adjective Of or pertaining to transgender people (adjective sense 1), or their experiences or identity.
  5. adjective Of a space: intended primarily for transgender people.
  6. adjective Of a space: available for use by transgender people, rather than only non-transgender people.
  7. adjective (dated) Synonym of crossgender (“across multiple genders”).
  8. noun (countable, now often offensive) A transgender person
  9. noun (preceded by the) Transgender people collectively.
  10. noun (uncountable, rare) Synonym of transgenderism (“the state of being transgender”).
  11. verb (transitive) To change the gender of (someone).
  12. verb (transitive, loosely) To change the sex of (someone).

Synonyms

crossgender T* TG trans* trans-gender transgenderal transgendered transgener trans transgenderism

Antonyms

cisgender

Etymology

The adjective sense is derived from trans- (“extending across, through, or over”) + gender, modelled after transsexual (adjective) and probably modified from transgenderism which was coined by the American psychiatrist John F. Oliven (1915–1975) in 1965; the terms transgender, transgenderal, transgendered, transgenderist, and similar terms arose in the decades after this. By the 1990s, the word transgender had acquired its current senses, and had also largely displaced the earlier term transsexual: see the usage notes.
The noun and verb senses are derived from the adjective. Regarding noun sense 2 (“synonym of transgenderism”), compare transsex (noun).

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “transgender”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details