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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finite

/ˈfaɪ.naɪt/ adjective, noun

Forms finites

  1. adjective Having an end or limit; (of a quantity) constrained by bounds; (of a set) whose number of elements is a natural number.
  2. adjective (grammar) Limited by (i.e. inflected for) person or number.
  3. adjective (ring theory, of a module (or algebra) over a ring) finitely generated (as a module).
  4. noun A thing which has an end or limit.

Synonyms

limited

Antonyms

infinite nonfinite infinitival unlimited endless eternal everlasting

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Middle English fynyte, finit, from Latin fīnītus, perfect passive participle of fīniō (“to finish; to terminate”), from fīnis (“boundary”). The word displaced Old English ġeendodlīċ.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; --opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.

Etymology [L. finitus, p.p. of finire. See Finish, and cf. Fine, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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