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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react

/ɹiːˈækt/ verb, noun

Forms reacts reacting reacted

  1. verb (intransitive) To act in response. “How did she react to the news?”
  2. verb (transitive, now rare) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
  3. verb (physics, intransitive) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force “Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.”
  4. verb (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
  5. verb (chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
  6. verb (Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
  7. noun (Internet) An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media. “Sad reacts only”

Synonyms

take respond oppose

Etymology

From re- + act. Piecewise doublet of redact.

The ä emphasizes the pronunciation of the word with two syllables rather than one syllable.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
  2. verb To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
  3. verb To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

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