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

“forgiven” is a form of

forgive

UK /fə(ɹ)ˈɡɪv/ · US /fɚˈɡɪv/ verb

Forms forgives forgiving forgave forgiven

  1. verb (transitive) To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against. “Please forgive me if my phone goes off - I'm expecting an urgent call from my boss.”
  2. verb (transitive) To pardon (something); to waive any negative feeling over or retribution for.
  3. verb (transitive) To waive or remit (a debt), to absolve from payment or compensation of. “Forgive a debt, that is, tell a debtor that a repayment of a loan is no longer needed.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To accord forgiveness.
  5. verb (transitive) To look past; to look beyond. “The music critic loves the instrumentation of the song so much that he can forgive the confusing lyrics.”
  6. verb (transitive) To redeem; to offset the bad effects of something.

Etymology

Alteration (due to give) of Middle English foryiven, forȝiven, from Old English forġiefan (“to forgive, to give”), from Proto-West Germanic *frageban, from Proto-Germanic *fragebaną (“to give away; give up; release; forgive”), equivalent to for- + give (etymologically for- + yive). Cognate with Scots forgeve, forgif, forgie (“to forgive”), West Frisian ferjaan (“to forgive”), Dutch vergeven (“to forgive”), German vergeben (“to forgive”), Icelandic fyrirgefa (“to forgive”), Yiddish פֿאַרגעבן (fargebn, “to forgive”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
  2. verb To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; --said in reference to the act forgiven.

Etymology [OE. forgiven, foryiven, foryeven, AS. forgiefan, forgifan; perh. for- + giefan, gifan to give; cf. D. vergeven, G. vergeben, Icel. fyrirgefa, Sw. f, Goth. fragiban to give, grant. See For-, and Give, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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