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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follow

UK /ˈfɒləʊ/ · US /ˈfɑloʊ/ verb, noun

Forms follows following followed followest followedst followeth

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching. “Follow that car!”
  2. verb (ambitransitive) To go or come after in a sequence. “B follows A in the alphabet.”
  3. verb (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.). “Follow these instructions to the letter.”
  4. verb (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
  5. verb (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to. “Do you follow me?”
  6. verb (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person. “I followed the incumbent throughout the election.”
  7. verb (transitive) To be a supporter of (a sports team).
  8. verb (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform. “If you want to see more of our articles, follow us on Twitter.”
  9. noun (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. “a follow shot”
  10. noun (social media) The act of following another user's online activity.

Synonyms

trail tail succeed come after ensue follow on pursue postdate fall out travel along comply abide by conform to adopt espouse take after trace watch observe watch over keep an eye on play along accompany keep up keep abreast come be surveil survey stick to

Antonyms

guide lead precede antecede come before forego unfollow

Etymology

From Middle English folwen, folȝen, folgen, from Old English folgian (“to follow, pursue”), from Proto-West Germanic *folgēn, from Proto-Germanic *fulgāną (“to follow”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
  2. verb To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
  3. verb To go or come after; --used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.

Etymology [OE. foluwen, folwen, folgen, AS. folgian, fylgean, fylgan; akin to D. volgen, OHG. folg, G. folgen, Icel. fylgja, Sw. följa, Dan. fölge, and perh. to E. folk.]

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

Sanskrit

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