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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find

UK /ˈfɑjnd/ · US /ˈfaɪ̯nd/ verb, noun

Forms finds finding found fand founden findest foundest findeth

  1. verb (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. “I found this shell on the beach.”
  2. verb (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. “I found my car keys. They were under the couch.”
  3. verb (ditransitive) To locate on behalf of another. “I found you a new place to live”
  4. verb (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end. “Water is found to be a compound substance.”
  5. verb (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort. “to find leisure; to find means”
  6. verb (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. “Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself!”
  7. verb (transitive) To meet with; to receive. “The proposal found little support within the government.”
  8. verb (transitive) To point out. “He kept finding faults with my work.”
  9. noun Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
  10. noun The act of finding.

Synonyms

come upon encounter happen across run across catch check detect determine discover disinter fish up identify learn locate map navigate pick up pinpoint place position discovery breakthrough uncovering happen chance bump observe notice regain find out

Antonyms

lose miss forlese leave behind

Etymology

From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”).
See also West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna; also English path, Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “ford”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊), Sanskrit पथ (pathá, “path”), Proto-Slavic *pǫtь.
For the meaning development compare Proto-Slavic *najьti > Russian найти́ (najtí), akin to Proto-Slavic *jьti > идти́ (idtí); Russian находи́ть (naxodítʹ), нахо́дка (naxódka), akin to ход (xod), ходи́ть (xodítʹ).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
  2. verb To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. "I find you passing gentle." Shak.
  3. verb To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
  4. noun Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archæologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.

Etymology [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. fin; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. pat to fall, fly, E. petition.]

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

Sanskrit

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