Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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days

/ˈdɛjz/ noun, adverb

Also a form of day

noun A particular time or period of vague extent. “Things were more relaxed in Grandpa's days.”
noun Life. “That's how he ended his days.”
adverb During the day. “She works days at the garage.”

Synonyms

by day years

Antonyms

nights

Etymology

From Middle English dayes, dawes, from Old English dagas, from Proto-Germanic *dagōs, *dagōz, plural of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (plural ending).

From Middle English daies, from Old English dæġes (“by day”), from Proto-Germanic *dagas, *dagis, genitive of *dagaz, equivalent to day + -s (adverbial ending).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “days”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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

प्रतित्र्यहम् prati-tryaham for three days at a time.
आह्न āhna a series of days, many days.
द्वैयह्निक dvaiyahnika of or belonging to two days.
कापिवन kāpivana name of a festival lasting two days.
उभयेद्युस् ubhaye-dyus on both days, on two subsequent days.
अद्य a-dya or Vedic adyā, ind., to-day; now-a-days; now.
अद्यतनीय adyatanīya extending over or referring to to-day; current now-a-days.
निर्दश nir-daśa more than ten days old, what happened more than ten days ago;

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