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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behave

UK /bᵻˈheɪv/ · US /bɪˈheɪv/ verb

Forms behaves behaving behaved behavest behavedst behaveth

  1. verb (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way; to conform. “You need to behave yourself, young lady.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. “He behaves like a child whenever she's around.”
  3. verb (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
  4. verb (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way. “His mother threatened to spank him if he didn't behave.”

Synonyms

deport tread acquit act do bear conduct comport carry

Antonyms

misbehave

Etymology

From Middle English behaven, bihabben (“to restrain, behave”), from Old English behabban (“to surround, embrace, hold, contain, hold back, withhold, restrain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihabbjan, equivalent to be- + have. Cognate with Middle Low German behebben, behāven (“to receive, acquire, reach, keep”), Low German behebben (“to act, behave”), German behaben (“to behave”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.]
  2. verb To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; --used reflexively.
  3. verb To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

Etymology [AS. behabban to surround, restrain, detain (akin to G. gehaben (obs.) to have, sich gehaben to behave or carry one's self); pref. be- + habban to have. See Have, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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