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

fifth

/fɪfθ/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms fifths fifthing fifthed fift fiveth

  1. adjective The ordinal form of the number five.
  2. noun (ellipsis or nominalization) The person or thing in the fifth position.
  3. noun (ellipsis) The fifth gear of a transmission.
  4. noun One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
  5. noun (US) A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
  6. noun (music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
  7. noun The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
  8. verb (music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
  9. verb (transitive, informal) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
  10. verb (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.
  11. proper noun (chiefly US, informal, with the) The Fifth Amendment.
  12. proper noun (chiefly US, informal, with the, by extension) The right not to give self-incriminating testimony.
  13. proper noun (chiefly US) Fifth Avenue.
  14. proper noun (chiefly US) Fifth Street.

Synonyms

5th Vth V. V ⅕ one-fifth fifth part twenty percent

Etymology

From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).

(Fifth Amendment): From the name of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, protecting various rights in US legal proceedings.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Next in order after the fourth; --the ordinal of five.
  2. adjective Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. Fifth monarchy men (Hist.), a fanatical sect in England, of the time of the commonwealth, who maintained that there would be a fifth universal monarchy, during which Christ would reign on earth a thousand years.
  3. noun The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
  4. noun The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

Etymology [OE. fifte, fifthe, AS. fifta. See Five.]

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

Sanskrit

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