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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generally

UK /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɹə.li/ · US /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɚ.li/ adverb

  1. adverb Popularly or widely. “It is generally known that the Earth is round.”
  2. adverb As a rule; usually; typically; in most cases. “I generally have a walk in the afternoon.”
  3. adverb Without reference to specific details. “Generally speaking …”
  4. adverb In the general case, without exception; in all cases. “It is generally true that the angles of a triangle sum to 180 degrees.”
  5. adverb (obsolete) Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.

Synonyms

commonly generically always basically by and large ordinarily mostly regularly wontedly usually normally collaboratively en masse all things considered altogether at large as a whole broadly catholicly in general more often than not in the main loosely broadly speaking

Antonyms

specifically

Etymology

From Middle English generally, generalliche, equivalent to general + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
  2. adverb In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively.

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

Sanskrit

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

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