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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

third

UK /θɜːd/ · US /θɚd/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms thirds thirding thirded

  1. adjective The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second. “The third tree from the left is my favorite.”
  2. noun The person or thing in the third position. “Jones came in third.”
  3. noun One of three equal parts of a whole. “He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.”
  4. noun (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale. “They sing in thirds.”
  5. noun (baseball) third base “The play ended with Jones standing on third.”
  6. noun (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
  7. noun A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
  8. noun (archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system.
  9. verb (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
  10. verb To divide into three equal parts.

Synonyms

3rd 3d IIIrd III tertiary one-third ⅓ 1/3 tierce third base third gear thirdly

Etymology

From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Next after the second; coming after two others; --the ordinal of three; as, the thirdhour in the day. "The third night." Chaucer.
  2. adjective Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day. Third estate. (a) In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by the House of Commons. (b) In France, the tiers état.
  3. noun The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
  4. noun The sixtieth part of a second of time.

Etymology [OE. thirde, AS. , fr. , , three; akin to D. derde third, G. dritte, Icel. , Goth. , L. tertius, Gr. t. See Three, and cf. Riding a jurisdiction, Tierce.]

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

Sanskrit

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