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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argue

UK /ˈɑː.ɡjuː/ · US /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ verb, proper noun

Forms argues arguing argued

  1. verb To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. “The new increase in crime argues for even tougher jail sentences, according to some.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle. “He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.
  4. verb (transitive) To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor). “He argued his point.”
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To prove.
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To accuse.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

submit spar altercate bicker wrangle remonstrate reason contend debate fence indicate

Etymology

From Middle English arguen, from Old French arguer, from Latin arguere (“to declare, show, prove, make clear, reprove, accuse”), q.v. for more. Displaced native Old English flītan and reċċan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.
  2. verb To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; --followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.
  3. verb To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.
  4. verb To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning.

Etymology [OE. arguen, F. arguer, fr. L. argutare, freq. of arguere to make clear; from the same root as E. argent.]

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

Sanskrit

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