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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learned

UK /ˈlɜːnɪd/ · US /ˈlɝnɪd/ adjective, proper noun

Also a form of learn

Forms Learneds learnt

  1. adjective Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
  2. adjective (law, formal) A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
  3. adjective Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
  4. adjective Derived from experience; acquired by learning. “Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.”
  5. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

brainy erudite knowledgeable scholarly educated academical clueful cultivated in the know knowledgeful knowsome savvy smart sussed switched on up on well-informed knowing lettered well-educated well-read conditioned

Antonyms

unlearned ignorant stupid thick uneducated benighted cimmerian clueless foolish ill-informed illiterate innocent

Etymology

From Middle English lerned, lernd, lernyd, equivalent to learn + -ed, which replaced the earlier lered (“taught”), from Old English (ġe)lǣred, past participle of lǣran (“to teach”). Learn formerly had the meaning “to teach”, which is now found only in nonstandard speech, as well as its standard meaning of “to learn”.

Past participle of learn.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory.

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

Sanskrit

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

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