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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beyond

UK /bɪˈjɒnd/ · US /biˈ(j)ɑnd/ preposition, adverb, noun

Forms beyonds

  1. preposition Further away than.
  2. preposition On the far side of. “No swimming beyond this point.”
  3. preposition Later than; after.
  4. preposition Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass. “Your staff went beyond my expectations in refunding my parking ticket.”
  5. preposition In addition to; supplementing. “She had no reason for the conviction beyond the very inadequate one that she had seen him around London.”
  6. preposition (figurative) Past, or out of reach of. “You won't last beyond my first punch.”
  7. preposition (figurative) Not within the comprehension of. “He understood geometry well, but algebraic topology was beyond him.”
  8. adverb Farther along or away. “next year and beyond”
  9. adverb In addition; more.
  10. adverb (informal) extremely, more than
  11. noun The unknown.
  12. noun The hereafter.
  13. noun Something that is far beyond.

Synonyms

ayond ayont acutely awfully almighty badly impossibly damn drastically exceedingly extraordinarily highly hugely immensely indecently insanely intensely jolly mightily murrain

Antonyms

before earlier

Etymology

From Middle English biyonde, from Old English beġeondan, from be- + ġeond; related to yonder.

Webster’s 1913

  1. preposition On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.
  2. preposition At a place or time not yet reached; before.
  3. adverb Further away; at a distance; yonder.

Etymology [OE. biyonde, bi, AS. begeondan, prep. and adv.; pref. be- + geond yond, yonder. See Yon, Yonder.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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