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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alternative

UK /ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/ · US /ɔlˈtɝ.nə.tɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms alternatives

  1. adjective Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities. “an alternative proposition”
  2. adjective (linguistics) Presenting two or more alternatives. “alternative conjunctions like or”
  3. adjective Other; different from something else.
  4. adjective Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Alternate, reciprocal.
  6. noun A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities. “I gave you the alternative; you decided to stay.”
  7. noun One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
  8. noun The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
  9. noun (uncountable, music) alternative rock
  10. noun A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism. “Disability activists discourage the use of the words "crazy" and "insane" due to their negative connections to mental health, suggesting alternatives such as "wild", "silly", or "out of this world", which do not relate to mental health.”

Synonyms

disjunctive Synonyms: see Thesaurus:option option choice alternate substitute

Antonyms

different opposing

Etymology

From Middle French alternatif, from Medieval Latin alternātīvus (“alternating”), from the participle stem of Latin alternō (“interchange, alternate”). By surface analysis, alternate + -ive. Compare alternate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Offering a choice of two things.
  2. adjective Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
  3. noun An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.
  4. noun Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.

Etymology [Cf. F. alternatif.]

Etymology [Cf. F. alternative, LL. alternativa.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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