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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simply

/ˈsɪmpli/ adverb

  1. adverb (manner) In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone.
  2. adverb (manner) Plainly; without art or subtlety
  3. adverb (manner) Foolishly; stupidly.
  4. adverb (focus) Merely; solely. “I was simply asking a question.”
  5. adverb (degree) absolutely, positively. “That was a simply wonderful dessert.”
  6. adverb Frankly. “Simply, he just fired you.”

Synonyms

clearly obviously unquestionably just barely but literally merely no more than nothing but only very above a bit absolutely sorely widely horribly horrendously bone abundantly plainly

Antonyms

complexly

Etymology

From Middle English symply, symplely; equivalent to simple + -ly, with *-lely simplified to -ly by haplology.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.
  2. adverb Plainly; without art or subtlety.

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

Sanskrit

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

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