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

conditional

/kənˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/ adjective, noun

Forms conditionals conditionall

  1. adjective Limited by a condition. “I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.”
  2. adjective (logic) Stating that one sentence is true if another is true. “"A implies B" is a conditional statement.”
  3. adjective (grammar) Expressing a condition or supposition. “a conditional word, mode, or tense”
  4. noun (grammar) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
  5. noun (grammar) The conditional mood.
  6. noun (logic) A statement that one sentence is true if another is. “"A implies B" is a conditional.”
  7. noun (programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point. “if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.”
  8. noun A condition (a limitation or restriction).

Synonyms

conditioned in logic limited relative contingent qualified if-then statement material conditional

Antonyms

absolute categorical unconditional unfettered unlimited universal

Etymology

From French conditionnel, from Old French condicionel, equivalent to condition + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise.
  2. adjective Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense.
  3. noun A limitation. [Obs.] Bacon.
  4. noun A conditional word, mode, or proposition.

Etymology [L. conditionalis.]

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

Sanskrit

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