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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done

/dʌn/ adjective, verb, interjection, proper noun

Also a form of do doe

Forms dones dyun 'done

  1. adjective Having completed or finished an activity. “He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."”
  2. adjective (of an activity or task) Completed or finished. “I'll text you when the movie's done.”
  3. adjective (of food) Ready, fully cooked. “As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.”
  4. adjective Being exhausted, used up, or fully spent. “When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.”
  5. adjective Without hope or prospect of completion or success. “He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.”
  6. adjective Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful. “I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!”
  7. adjective (Canada, Philadelphia, Scotland, predicative) Finished with (something). “I'm done my homework.”
  8. adjective (colloquial) Punished.
  9. verb (African-American Vernacular, Southern US, Cockney, auxiliary, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect; have. “I woke up and found out she done left.”
  10. interjection Expresses that a task has been completed.
  11. interjection Expresses agreement to and conclusion of a proposal, a set of terms, a sale, a request, etc.
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

finished through completed concluded in the books complete ended accursed fey undone condemned cursed star-crossed sunk cussed damned dead meat doomed ill-fated lost through with

Etymology

From Middle English don, idon, ydon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (“to do”)). Equivalent to do + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Scots dune, deen, dene, dane (“done”), Saterland Frisian däin (“done”), West Frisian dien (“done”), Dutch gedaan (“done”), German Low German daan (“done”), German getan (“done”). More at do.

From Middle English don; equivalent to do + -en (plural simple present ending).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Given; executed; issued; made public; --used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.

Etymology [Prob. corrupted from OF. doné, F. donné, p. p. of OF. doner, F. donner, to give, issue, fr. L. donare to give. See Donate, and cf. Donee.]

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

Sanskrit

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