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

“courses” is a form of

course

UK /kɔːs/ · US /kɔɹs/ noun, verb

Forms courses coursing coursed 'course

  1. noun A sequence of events. “The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.”
  2. noun A normal or customary sequence.
  3. noun A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding. “Doubts arose about the expediency of such a course in the present crisis.”
  4. noun Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
  5. noun (education) A learning programme
  6. noun a series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject “I need to take a French course.”
  7. noun (UK, Ireland, Philippines) an educational programme at a college or university leading to an academic degree or vocational qualification. “What's your course in university? —Business studies. And you?”
  8. noun (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
  9. verb To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood). “The oil coursed through the engine.”
  10. verb (transitive) To run through or over.
  11. verb (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
  12. verb (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game. “to course greyhounds after deer”

Synonyms

class course of study course of instruction line trend course of action path track form grade row run flow feed naturally of course

Etymology

From Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of cursus and cour.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
  2. noun THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.
  3. verb To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
  4. verb To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

Etymology [F. cours, course, L. cursus, fr. currere to run. See Current.]

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

Sanskrit

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