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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distinctive

/dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms distinctives

  1. adjective Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing. “a product in distinctive packaging”
  2. adjective (rare) Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
  3. adjective Characteristic, typical. “his distinctive bass voice”
  4. adjective (rare) Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
  5. adjective (Hebrew grammar, of accents) Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
  6. adjective (linguistics, of sounds) Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
  7. noun A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic.
  8. noun (Hebrew grammar) A distinctive accent.
  9. noun (theology) A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.

Synonyms

typical classifiable

Etymology

From Latin distinctus, perfect passive participle of distinguere (to push apart, to divide; see distinct) + -ive (forming adjectives signifying relation or tendency to). Cognate with French distinctif and Medieval Latin distinctivus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.
  2. adjective Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating.

Etymology [Cf. F. distinctif.]

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

Sanskrit

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