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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since

/sɪn(t)s/ adverb, preposition, conjunction

Forms sence

  1. adverb From a specified time in the past. “I met him last year, but haven't seen him since.”
  2. preposition Continuously during that period of time. “I'd known her only since the previous year, so from/since the moment we got married we’ve quarrelled.”
  3. preposition At certain points during that period of time.
  4. conjunction From the time that. “I have loved you since I first met you.”
  5. conjunction Because. “Since you didn't call, we left without you.”
  6. conjunction (obsolete) When or that.

Synonyms

sithen sith sithence

Antonyms

until while

Etymology

From Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since.
  2. adverb In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago. w many ages since has Virgil writ Roscommon.
  3. preposition From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; --usually with a past event or time for the object.
  4. conjunction Seeing that; because; considering; --formerly followed by that.

Etymology [For sins, contr. fr. OE. sithens, sithenes, formed by an adverbial ending (cf. Besides) from OE. sithen, also shortened into sithe, sin, AS. si, sy, seo, afterward, then, since, after; properly, after that; fr. sisi afterward, since, OHG. sid, G. seit since, Goth. seipus late, ni sei no longer) + instrumental of the demonstrative and article. See That.]

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

Sanskrit

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