Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

cannot

/ˈkænɒt/ verb, noun

Forms cannots cannet cannit can not

verb Can not; be unable to (whether due to physical inability, logical impossibility, etc.). “I cannot open the window. It is stuck.”
verb Be forbidden or not permitted to. “You cannot enter the hall without a ticket.”
noun Something that cannot be done. “the cans and cannots”
noun A person who cannot do (something).

Synonyms

From Middle English can not, cannot, cannouȝt, etc. (compare Old English ne cann), equivalent to can + not.

Etymology [Can to be able _ -not.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “cannot”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “cannot” (best matches first).

अमोक्य a-mokya that cannot be unloosed.
अरुतहनु a-ruta-hanu whose cheeks or jaws cannot be broken.
निष्प्रतिक्रिय niṣ-pratikriya incurable, irremediable, what cannot be remedied.
अविहर्यतक्रतु a-viharyata-kratu whose will cannot be averted; ( Sāy. ) doer of acts undesired (by his foes).
असेचन a-secana or a-secanaka, as, ā, am, that on which one cannot look enough; charming, lovely.
धेनुष्यित dhenuṣyita one who has pledged the milk of his cows and therefore cannot make use of it himself.
आदार ā-dāra allurement, attraction; (Sāy.) an instigator; name of a plant used instead of the Soma plant, if this cannot…
निरुच्छ्वास nir-ucchvāsa absence of breath, not breathing; ( as, ā, am ), without breathing, not breathing, breathless; narrow, contr…