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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far

UK /fɑː/ · US /fɑɹ/ adjective, adverb, verb, noun

Forms farther further farthest furthest farthermost furthermost fars farring farred

  1. adjective Distant; remote in space. “He went to a far land.”
  2. adjective Remote in time.
  3. adjective Long.
  4. adjective More remote of two. “See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.”
  5. adjective Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position. “They are on the far right on this issue.”
  6. adjective Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
  7. adjective (programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture. “far heap; far memory; far pointer”
  8. adverb To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent. “You have all come far and you will go further.”
  9. adverb Very much; by a great amount. “He was far richer than we'd thought.”
  10. verb (transitive, rare) To send far away.
  11. noun Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
  12. noun (UK, dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.

Synonyms

distant long Army for the Liberation of Rwanda ALIR Former Armed Forces Interahamwe

Antonyms

close near

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

From Latin far. Doublet of farro.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A young pig, or a litter of pigs.
  2. adjective Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
  3. adjective Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
  4. adverb To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.

Etymology [See Farrow.]

Etymology [OE. fer, feor, AS. feor; akin to OS. fer, D. ver, OHG. ferro, adv., G. fern, a., Icel. fjarri, Dan. fjirn, Sw. fjerran, adv., Goth. fairra, adv., Gr. paras, adv., far, and prob. to L. per through, and E. prefix for-, as in forgive, and also to fare. CF. Farther, Farthest.]

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

Sanskrit

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