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

fourth

UK /fɔːθ/ · US /fɔɹθ/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms fourths fourthing fourthed the Fourth 4th

  1. adjective The ordinal form of the number four.
  2. noun (in the singular) The person or thing in the fourth position.
  3. noun (chiefly US) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
  4. noun (in the singular) The fourth gear of an engine.
  5. noun (music) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
  6. noun (astronomy, rare) One sixtieth of a third or tierce.
  7. verb (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been thirded.
  8. proper noun (US) The Fourth of July.

Synonyms

fourth part quarter farthing one-fourth one-quarter twenty-five percent quartern 4th quaternary fourthly

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th (ordinal suffix).
Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
  2. adjective Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
  3. noun One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.
  4. noun The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key. The Fourth, specifically, un the United States, the fourth day of July, the anniversary of the declaration of American independence; as, to celebrate the Fourth.

Etymology [OE. fourthe, ferthe, feorthe, AS. feóredha, fr. feówer four.]

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

Sanskrit

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