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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him

/ˈhɪm/ pronoun, noun, proper noun

Forms hims

  1. pronoun With dative effect or as an indirect object.
  2. pronoun Following a preposition.
  3. pronoun With accusative effect or as a direct object.
  4. pronoun (colloquial, uncommon) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction. “Now him and Bernie are best friends.”
  5. pronoun Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be). “Who was there? —Him.”
  6. pronoun (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself.
  7. pronoun With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
  8. pronoun (slang) A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity. “Stop trying that, you're not him bro.”
  9. noun (informal) A male person or animal. “I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.”
  10. proper noun A surname from Khmer.

Synonyms

that guy that nigga he

Etymology

From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).

A surname of Khmer origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. pronoun Them. See Hem. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. pronoun The objective case of he. See He.

Etymology [AS. him, dat. of he. sq. root183. See He.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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