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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again

/əˈɡɛn/ adverb, preposition

Forms agen againe agayne ageyne agin ag'in 'gain

  1. adverb Another time: indicating a repeat of an action. “I enjoyed it so much I went again the next day.”
  2. adverb Back (to a former place or state). “We need to bring the old customs to life again.”
  3. adverb Over and above a factor of one. “This stick is quite long, but that other one is half as long again.”
  4. adverb Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion. “Great, thanks again!”
  5. adverb Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember. “What's that called again?”
  6. adverb I ask again, I say again; used in repeating a question or statement. “Again, I'm not criticizing, I just want to understand.”
  7. adverb Here too, here also, in this case as well; used in applying a previously made point to a new instance; sometimes preceded by "here". “Approach B is better than approach A in many respects, but again, there are difficulties in implementing it.”
  8. adverb (obsolete) Back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point. “Bring us word again.”
  9. preposition (dialectal, otherwise obsolete) Against.

Synonyms

once more re- ana- de novo once again over again

Etymology

From Middle English agayn, from Old English onġēan (“against, again”), from Proto-West Germanic *in gagin, from Proto-Germanic *in gagin. Cognate with German entgegen (“contrary to”), North Frisian ijen (“against”), Danish igen (“again”), Swedish igen (“again”), and Norwegian Bokmål igjen (“again”), and Icelandic í gegnum (“through”). By surface analysis, on- + gain (“against”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In return, back; as, bring us word again.
  2. adverb Another time; once more; anew.
  3. preposition Against; also, towards (in order to meet). [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. agein, agayn, AS. ongegn, ongeán, against, again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. Gainsay.]

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

Sanskrit

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