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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clearly

UK /ˈklɪəli/ · US /ˈklɪɚli/ adverb

Forms clearlier clearliest

  1. adverb (manner) In a clear manner. “He enunciated every syllable clearly.”
  2. adverb (modal) Without a doubt; obviously. “Clearly, the judge erred in his opinion.”
  3. adverb (degree) To a degree clearly discernible. “He was clearly wrong on all points but one.”

Synonyms

expressly unambiguously obviously intelligibly understandably distinctly clear

Etymology

From Middle English clerli, clerely, clerelych, cleerliche, clerliche.
By surface analysis, clear + (adverbial) -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In a clear manner.

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

Sanskrit

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

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