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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vital

/ˈvaɪtəl/ adjective, proper noun

Forms Vitals

  1. adjective Relating to or characteristic of life. “vital energies; vital functions; vital actions”
  2. adjective Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends. “The brain is a vital organ.”
  3. adjective Invigorating or life-giving.
  4. adjective Necessary to continued existence. “The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation.”
  5. adjective Relating to the recording of life events. “Birth, marriage and death certificates are vital records.”
  6. adjective Very important. “It is vital that you don't forget to do your homework.”
  7. adjective Containing life; living.
  8. adjective Lively, having vitality
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

lifely crucial necessary significant big central consequential critical epochful essential extraordinary fateful fatefraught fatesome heavy pivotal high on the totem pole historic innegligible key life-sustaining full of life lively

Antonyms

mortal

Etymology

From Middle English vital, from Old French vital, from Latin vītālis (“of life, life-giving”), from vīta (“life”), from vīvō (“to live”). Doublet of jiva and quick.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.
  2. adjective Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood.
  3. noun A vital part; one of the vitals. [R.]

Etymology [F., fr. L. vitalis, fr. vita life; akin to vivere to live. See Vivid.]

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

Sanskrit

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