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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final

UK /ˈfaɪnl̩/ · US /ˈfaɪn(ə)l/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms finals finaling finalling finaled finalled finall

  1. noun (Canada, US, Philippines) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
  2. noun (Oxbridge slang) A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
  3. noun (sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
  4. noun (phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
  5. noun (music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
  6. adjective Last; ultimate. “final solution; the final day of a school term”
  7. adjective Conclusive; decisive. “a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue”
  8. adjective Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
  9. adjective (grammar) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
  10. adjective (linguistics) Word-final; occurring at the end of a word.
  11. verb (intransitive, sports, colloquial) To qualify for the final round of a competition. “Mike finalled in both the 400 meter and the 800 meter races.”

Synonyms

dernier endly terminal extreme conclusive decisive definitive endsome hindermost hindmost last ultimate final examination final exam concluding net

Antonyms

initial early first original

Etymology

From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.
  2. adjective Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.

Etymology [F., fr. L. finalis, fr. finis boundary, limit, end. See Finish.]

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

Sanskrit

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