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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articulate

UK /ɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪk.jʊ.leɪt/ · US /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms articulates articulating articulated

  1. verb (transitive) To make clear or effective.
  2. verb (ambitransitive) To speak clearly; to enunciate. “I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.”
  3. verb (transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific. “I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.”
  4. verb (transitive) To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend. “an articulated bus”
  5. verb (music, transitive) To attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc. “Articulate that passage heavily.”
  6. verb (anatomy, intransitive) To form a joint or connect by joints. “The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.”
  7. verb (obsolete) To treat or make terms.
  8. adjective Clear; effective.
  9. adjective Speaking in a clear and effective manner; having both good articulation and good elocution. “She’s a bright, articulate young woman.”
  10. adjective Consisting of segments united by joints. “jointed articulate animals”
  11. adjective Distinctly marked off. “an articulate period in history”
  12. adjective (obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
  13. adjective (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
  14. adjective (obsolete, as a participle) Articulated (all senses).
  15. noun (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

Synonyms

eloquent well-spoken joint give voice formulate word phrase pronounce enounce sound out enunciate say vocalize vocalise articulated

Antonyms

inarticulate

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in 1531, the verb in 1551; borrowed from Latin articulātus (“distinct, articulated, jointed”), perfect passive participle of articulō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
  2. adjective Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.
  3. noun An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
  4. verb To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

Etymology [L. articulatus. See Articulata.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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