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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broke

UK /ˈbɹəʊ̯k/ · US /ˈbɹoʊ̯k/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of break

Forms broker brokest brokes broking broked

  1. adjective (informal) Financially ruined, bankrupt. “He was broke after spending all his money into video games.”
  2. adjective (informal) Without any money, penniless. “dead broke; flat broke”
  3. adjective (archaic, now informal) Broken. “If it ain’t broke, don't fix it.”
  4. adjective (naval and military) Demoted, deprived of a commission. “He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.”
  5. noun (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
  6. noun (obsolete) A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.
  7. verb To act as a broker; to transact business for another; synonym of broker. “Agents broking with various other carriers can offer additional options.”
  8. verb (obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
  9. adjective (slang) Broke off, rich, wealthy
  10. proper noun A locality in the Singleton council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Synonyms

almsless arm badly off bankrupt beggared beggarly boracic broken broker than the Ten Commandments depauperate destitute dirt poor disadvantaged down and out down at heel down on one's luck down on one's uppers empty-handed farthingless feeling the pinch bust skint stone-broke stony-broke

Etymology

Ablauted form of break.

From Middle English broce, from Old English gebroc (“fragment”), from brecan (“to break”). Compare broken, past participle of break. Compare also Scots brock (“a scrap of meat or bread”).

Back-formation from broker.

Clipping of broke off.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To transact business for another. [R.] Brome.
  2. verb To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp. [Obs.]

Etymology [See Broker, and cf. Brook.]

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