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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his

/hɪz/ determiner, pronoun, proper noun

Forms HISs HISes HIS's

  1. determiner Belonging to him.
  2. determiner (sometimes dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
  3. determiner (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
  4. determiner (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. “Ahab his mark”
  5. pronoun That or those belonging to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. “This pen is his. These books are also his.”
  6. pronoun (informal) His house or home. “After our night out, I went back to his.”
  7. proper noun A surname from Swiss.

Synonyms

CIS HIT

Etymology

From Middle English hes, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its.

Webster’s 1913

  1. pronoun Belonging or pertaining to him; --used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.
  2. pronoun The possessive of he; as, the book is his. "The sea is his, and he made it." Ps. xcv. 5.

Etymology [AS. his of him, his, gen. masc. & neut. of h, neut. hit. See He.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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