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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confide

/kənˈfaɪd/ verb

Forms confides confiding confided

  1. verb (now rare) To trust or have faith (in). “I confide in her judgement in this matter.”
  2. verb To take (someone) into one's confidence; to speak in secret with. “I could no longer keep this secret alone; I had to confide in my brother.”
  3. verb (transitive, dated) To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone. “I confide this mission to you alone.”
  4. verb (transitive, intransitive) To say (something) in confidence. “After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman.”

Synonyms

entrust intrust trust commit

Etymology

From Middle Scots confide, confyde (“to put trust in”), from Latin confīdere (“to put trust in, have confidence in”), from con- (“together”) + fidēre (“to trust”). First attested in English use in the early 17th century. Doublet of faith and fidelity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; --usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
  2. verb To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; --followed by to. Congress may . . . confide to the Circuit jurisdiction of all offenses against the United States. Story.

Etymology [L. confidere; con- + fidere to trust. See Faith, and cf. Affiance.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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