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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no

UK /nəʊ/ · US /noʊ/ determiner, adverb, particle, preposition, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms noes nos noing noed

  1. determiner Not any. “no one”
  2. determiner Hardly any. “We'll be finished in no time at all.”
  3. determiner Not any possibility or allowance of (something). “No smoking. No parking.”
  4. determiner Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully. “My mother's no fool.”
  5. adverb Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives. “It is a less physical kind of torture, but no less gruesome.”
  6. adverb (informal) Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives. “This thing is no good.”
  7. adverb (without adjective, now Scotland, informal) Not. “I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.”
  8. adverb (colloquial, usually humorous) Not, does not, do not, etc. “Ug no like veggie.”
  9. particle Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition. “No, you are mistaken.”
  10. particle Used to express sadness or disappointment. “"We lost." "No!"”
  11. particle Used to express disbelief. “I got the job! / No! Really? That's fantastic!”
  12. particle Used to show agreement with a negative question. “"Don’t you like milk?" "No." (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")”
  13. particle (colloquial) Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement. “No, totally.”
  14. preposition Without. “Look Ma, no hands!”
  15. preposition Like.
  16. noun A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval.
  17. noun A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition. “The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty yeses and two nos.”
  18. verb (intransitive, colloquial) To say “no”.
  19. verb (transitive, colloquial) To answer with “no”; to decline, reject.
  20. proper noun A lake in South Sudan.

Synonyms

zero not even one not one nay nope no way nah I'm good ixnay naw negative negatory nobelium atomic number 102 no more

Antonyms

any some one a few a couple of a handful of multiple various many numerous countless every single yes all

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English no, noo, na, a reduced form of none, noon, nan (“none, not any”) used before consonants (compare a to an), from Old English nān (“none, not any”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“not any”, literally “not one”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + a. Piecewise doublet of none.
Cognate with Scots nae (“no, not any, none”), Old Frisian nān, nēn ("no, not any, none"; > Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), North Frisian nian (“no, not any, none”)), Old Dutch nēn ("no, not any, none"; > Dutch neen (“no”)), Old Norse neinn (“no, not any, none”). Compare also Old Saxon nigēn ("not any"; > Low German nen), Old Dutch nehēn (Middle Dutch negheen/negeen, Dutch geen), West Frisian gjin, Old High German nihein (> German kein). More at no, one.

Inherited from Middle English no, na, from Old English nā, nō (“no, not, not ever, never”), from Proto-West Germanic *naiwō, from Proto-Germanic *naiwô (“never”), from *ne (“not”) + *aiwō (“ever”), equivalent to ne + aye. Cognate with Scots na (“no”), Saterland Frisian noa (“no”), West Frisian né (“no”), nea (“never”), Dutch nee (“no”), Low German nee (“no”), German nie (“never”), dialectal German nö (“no”), Danish nej (“no”), Swedish nej (“no”), Icelandic nei (“no”). Doublet of nay.

Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin (in) numerō (“in number, to the number of”).

Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin numero (“in number, to the number of”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not any; not one; none.
  2. adverb Nay; not; not at all; not in any respect or degree; --a word expressing negation, denial, or refusal. Before or after another negative, no is emphatic.
  3. noun A refusal by use of the wordd no; a denial.
  4. noun A negative vote; one who votes in the negative; as, to call for the ayes and noes; the noes have it.

Etymology [OE. no, non, the same word as E. none; cf. E. a, an. See None.]

Etymology [OE. no, na, AS. na; ne not + a ever. AS. ne is akin to OHG. ni, Goth. ni, Russ. ne, Ir., Gael. & W. ni, L. ne, gr. nh (in comp.), Skr. na, and also to E. prefix un-. sq. root 193. See Aye, and cf. Nay, Not, Nice, Nefarious.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “no”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details