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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“canst” is a form of

can

/kæn/ verb, interjection, particle, noun, proper noun

Also a form of khan

Forms able could canst cannest couldst couldest could'st canneth canning cans canned couth canne kin c'

  1. verb (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to. “She can speak English, French, and German.”
  2. verb (auxiliary verb, defective) To be able to. “Can you remember your fifth birthday?”
  3. verb (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to. “You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.”
  4. verb (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to. “Can it be Friday already?”
  5. verb (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite. “Can you please come over here?”
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To know.
  7. verb (India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can
  8. verb (Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary or intransitive) To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context. “Can anot?”
  9. interjection (Manglish, Singlish) OK, sure; indicates approval or acknowledgment.
  10. interjection (Manglish, Singlish, with falling or rising-falling pitch) Used to convey reassurance.
  11. particle (Manglish, Singlish, interrogative) OK(?); used at the end of a question when seeking approval or acknowledgment. “I cut this wire, can?”
  12. noun A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal. “I keep a can of fuel for emergencies.”
  13. noun A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods. “Soup in a can lasts for years.”
  14. noun A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
  15. noun (archaic) A chamber pot.
  16. noun (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory. “Shit or get off the can.”
  17. noun (childish or vulgar, slang, Canada, US) Buttocks.
  18. noun (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
  19. noun (slang) Jail or prison. “Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years.”
  20. verb (transitive) To seal in a can. “They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.”

Synonyms

be able to may cognize grok ken tin bin chamber chamber pot chemical toilet commode Cousin John crapper gazunder guzunder honey bucket honeypot Jerry john johnny tin can canful can buoy buttocks nates arse butt backside bum buns

Antonyms

cannot can't may not mayn't

Etymology

From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning.

From Middle English canne, from Old English canne (“glass, container, cup, jar”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”).

Borrowed from Vietnamese Cần.

Abbreviation

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids. [Shak. ]
  2. noun A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.
  3. verb To preserve by putting in sealed cans [U. S.] "Canned meats" W. D. Howells. Canned goods, a general name for fruit, vegetables, meat, or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans.
  4. verb To know; to understand. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. & AS. canne; akin to D. Kan, G. Kanne, OHG. channa, Sw. Kanna, Dan. kande.]

Etymology [OE. cunnen, cannen (1st sing. pres. I can), to know, know how, be able, AS. cunnan, 1st sing. pres. ic cann or can, pl. cunnon, 1st sing. imp. cu\'ebe (for cunthe); p. p. cu\'eb (for cunth); akin to OS. Kunnan, D. Kunnen, OHG. chunnan, G. können, Icel. kunna, Goth. Kunnan, and E. ken to know. The present tense I can (AS. ic cann) was originally a preterit, meaning I have known or Learned, and hence I know, know how. *45. See Ken, Know; cf. Con, Cunning, Uncouth.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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