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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depend

/dɪˈpɛnd/ verb

Forms depends depending depended

  1. verb (intransitive) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition [with on or upon; or (obsolete) with of] “We would like to go skiing, but it depends on the amount of snow.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To trust; to have confidence; to rely. [with on or upon (usually)] “we should all be able to depend on the word or assurance of our friends”
  3. verb (now literary, heraldry) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.
  4. verb (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided. “a cause depending in court”
  5. verb (transitive) To cause to be contingent or dependent on; to set as a necessity.

Synonyms

hinge on ride pivot count bet look calculate reckon

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English dependen, from Old French dependre, from Latin dependeō, from dē- + pendeō (“to be suspended, hang”). In this sense, displaced native Old English hangian (“to hang or depend”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
  2. verb To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court.

Etymology [F. dépendre, fr. L. depend; de- + pend to hang. See Pendant.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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