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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inclusive

/ɪnˈkluːsɪv/ adjective

  1. adjective Including (almost) everything within its scope. “an inclusive list of data formats”
  2. adjective Including the extremes as well as the area between. “numbers 1 to 10 inclusive”
  3. adjective (linguistics) Of, or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when including the person being addressed. “The pronoun in "If you want, we could go back to my place for coffee" is an inclusive "we".”
  4. adjective Including or accepting those belonging to a particular group. “trans-inclusive feminism”

Synonyms

exhaustive inclusionary

Antonyms

exclusive exclusionary

Etymology

Derived from Middle French inclusif, from Medieval Latin inclūsīvus, from Latin inclūsus + -īvus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Inclosing; encircling; surrounding.
  2. adjective Comprehending the stated limit or extremes; as, from Monday to Saturday inclusive, that is, taking in both Monday and Saturday; --opposed to exclusive.

Etymology [Cf. F. inclusif.]

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

Sanskrit

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