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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impossible

UK /ɪmˈpɒs.ɪ.bəl/ · US /ɪmˈpɑ.sə.bəl/ adjective, noun

Forms impossibles inpossible

  1. adjective Not possible; not able to be done or happen. “It is difficult, if not impossible, to memorize 20,000 consecutive numbers.”
  2. adjective (colloquial) Very difficult to deal with. “You never listen to a word I say – you're impossible!”
  3. adjective (mathematics, dated) imaginary “impossible quantities, or imaginary numbers”
  4. noun An impossibility.
  5. noun A skateboard trick consisting of a backflip performed in midair.

Synonyms

unfeasible nonpossible unhappenable unpossible inconceivable out of the question unimaginable insufferable unacceptable unsufferable

Antonyms

possible inevitable

Etymology

From Middle English impossible, equivalent to im- + possible.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible.
  2. noun An impossibility. [Obs.]

Etymology [F., fr. L. impossibilis; pref. im- not + possibilis possible. See Possible.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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