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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fatal

[ˈfeɪ.ɾɫ̩] adjective, noun

Forms fatals

  1. adjective (rare, archaic) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
  2. adjective (rare, archaic) Foreboding death or great disaster.
  3. adjective Causing death or destruction. “a fatal wound; a fatal disease; that fatal day; a fatal mistake”
  4. adjective (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program. “a fatal error; a fatal exception”
  5. noun A fatality; an event that leads to death. “another fatal on the turnpike during rush hour”
  6. noun (computing) A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.

Synonyms

inevitable necessary avoidless certain foregone impreventable ineluctable inescapable inexorable irresistible natural predictable unavoidable unforestallable unescapable unpreventable inauspicious portentous augurous baleful fateful black calamitous disastrous

Antonyms

nonfatal

Etymology

From Middle French fatal, from Latin fātālis (“fatal”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [R.]
  2. adjective Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.]

Etymology [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See Fate.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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