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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at

/æt/ preposition, noun

Forms ats atting atted

  1. preposition In, near, or in the general vicinity of (a particular place). “Caesar was at Rome.”
  2. preposition Attending (an educational institution). “She's at Oxford University, studying chemistry.”
  3. preposition Working for (a company) or in (a place or situation). “He used to be at Lehman Brothers. Now he's at Merrill Lynch.”
  4. preposition Indicating distance or direction relative to the speaker. “Target at five miles. Prepare torpedoes.”
  5. preposition Present or taking place during (an event). “Was he at the meeting?”
  6. preposition Indicating time of occurrence, especially an instant of time, or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker’s perspective. “at six o’clock; at dawn; at closing time; at the age of twelve; at night; at the moment”
  7. preposition (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, especially finance and law) (also as at; before dates) On (a particular date).
  8. preposition In the direction of; towards; (often implied to be in a hostile or careless manner). “Don’t just talk at someone; really listen to what they have to say.”
  9. noun The at sign (@).
  10. noun (business, law) Ukrainian initialism of акціонерне товариство (akcionerne tovarystvo, “JSC”)

Synonyms

astatine atomic number 85

Etymology

From Middle English at, from Old English æt (“at, near, by, toward”), from Proto-West Germanic *at, from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, near, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognate with Scots at (“at”), North Frisian äät, äit, et, it (“at”), Danish at (“to”), Swedish åt (“for, toward”), Norwegian åt (“to”), Faroese at (“at, to, toward”), Icelandic að (“to, towards”), Gothic 𐌰𐍄 (at, “at”), Latin ad (“to, near”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. preposition Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to aim at a mark. It is less definite than in or on; at the house may be in or near the house. From this original import are derived all the various uses of at. It expresses: -
  2. preposition A relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.

Etymology [AS. æt; akin to OHG. az, Goth., OS., & Icel. at, Sw. åt, Dan. & L. ad.]

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