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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rude

UK /ɹuːd/ · US /ɹud/ adjective

Forms ruder rudest

  1. adjective Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous. “This girl was so rude towards the cashier by screaming at him for no apparent reason.”
  2. adjective Lacking refinement or skill; untaught; ignorant; raw.
  3. adjective Violent; abrupt; turbulent. “a rude awakening”
  4. adjective Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive. “a rude film”
  5. adjective Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
  6. adjective Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
  7. adjective Crudely made; primitive.
  8. adjective (MLE, slang) Good, awesome.

Synonyms

ill-mannered adult primitive uncouth impolite blue pornographic crude bad-mannered unmannered unmannerly ill-bred bounderish lowbred underbred yokelish uncivil natural raw

Etymology

From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
  2. adjective Hence, specifically: (a) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; --said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship. "Rude was the cloth." Chaucer.

Etymology [F., fr. L. rudis.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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