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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although

UK /ɔːlˈðəʊ/ · US /ɔlˈðoʊ/ conjunction

Forms altho altho' allthough

  1. conjunction Though, even though, in spite of or despite the fact that: introducing a clause that expresses a concession. “Although it was very muddy, the football game went on.”
  2. conjunction But, except. “It was difficult, although not as difficult as we had expected.”

Synonyms

notwithstanding even if albeit even though

Etymology

From Middle English althagh, from Old English compound of eall (“all (emphatic)”) + þēah (“though”). By surface analysis, al(l) + though.

Webster’s 1913

  1. conjunction Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.

Etymology [All + though; OE. al thagh.]

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

Sanskrit

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