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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however

UK /haʊˈɛvə/ · US /haʊˈɛvɚ/ adverb, conjunction

  1. adverb (conjunctive) Nevertheless; yet, still; in spite of that. “He told me not to do it. However, I did it anyway. / I did it anyway, however. / I, however, did it anyway.”
  2. adverb (conjunctive) In contrast. “The conference itself went very well. The party afterwards, however, was a disaster.”
  3. adverb (degree, fused relative) Regardless of how; no matter how “However clear you think you've been, and however many questions you may've answered, there'll always remain some doubts.”
  4. adverb (manner, fused relative) Regardless of how; regardless of the way in which. “Let me know when you've had your interview, however it goes.”
  5. adverb (manner, fused relative) In any way in which; how. “She offered to help however she could.”
  6. adverb (informal, manner) In any way that one likes or chooses; in a haphazard or spontaneous way. “I don't care; just do it however.”
  7. adverb (interrogative) How ever: an emphatic form of how, used to ask in what manner. “I thought it was impossible. However were you able to do it?”
  8. adverb (obsolete) In any case, at any rate, at all events.
  9. conjunction (proscribed) But, yet, though, although. “*She wanted to go, however she decided against it.”

Synonyms

nonetheless notwithstanding that said still and all in any case after all anyway all that said anyhow all the same be it as it may be that as it may but even so having said that howbeit just the same maugre natheless nevertheless withal still yet

Etymology

From Middle English however, how-ever, how-evere; equivalent to how + -ever. Compare howsoever.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In whetever manner, way, or degree.
  2. adverb At all events; at least; in any case.
  3. conjunction Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; though; as, I shall not oppose your design; I can not, however, approve of it. In your excuse your love does little say; You might howe'er have took a better way. Dryden.

Etymology [Sometimes contracted into howe'er.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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