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

“conversed” is a form of

converse

UK /kənˈvɜːs/ · US /kənˈvɝs/ verb, noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms converses conversing conversed

  1. verb (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.
  2. verb (followed by with) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
  3. verb (obsolete) To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.
  4. noun (now literary) Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
  5. adjective Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal. “a converse proposition”
  6. noun The opposite or reverse.
  7. noun (logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one. “All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.”
  8. noun (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
  9. noun (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
  10. proper noun A surname.
  11. proper noun A shoe of an American-based brand of that name.

Synonyms

conversate convo discourse chat common confab confabulate jaw parley treat word transpose reversed transposed

Etymology

From Old French converser, from Latin conversor (“live, have dealings with”).

From Latin conversus (“turned around”), past participle of converto (“turn about”).

The athletic equipment company is named after its founder, Marquis Mills Converse.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; --followed by with.
  2. verb To engage, in familiar colloqui; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; --followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing.
  3. noun Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.
  4. noun Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

Etymology [F. converser, L. conversari to associate with; con- + versari to be turned, to live, remain, fr. versare to turn often, v. intens. of vertere to turn See Convert.]

Etymology [L. conversus, p.p. of convertere. See Convert.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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