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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whose

/huːz/ determiner, pronoun

Also a form of who

  1. determiner (interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's. “Whose (wallet) is this?”
  2. determiner (relative) Of whom, belonging to whom. “This is the man whose dog caused the accident.”
  3. determiner (relative) Of which, belonging to which. “We saw several houses whose roofs were falling off.”
  4. pronoun (interrogative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom. “Several people have lost their suitcases. Whose have you found?”
  5. pronoun (relative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom. “This car is blocking the way, but Mr Smith, whose it is, will be here shortly.”

Etymology

From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. pronoun The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which.

Etymology [OE. whos, whas, AS. hwæs, gen. of hwa. See Who.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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