Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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interrogation

/ɪnˌteɹ.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms interrogations

noun The act of interrogating or questioning; an examination by questions; an inquiry.
noun A question put; an inquiry.
noun (dated) A question mark.

Synonyms

questioning question interrogative interrogative sentence examination interrogatory inquiry enquiry query

Etymology

From Middle English interrogacion, from Old French interrogacion, from Latin interrogātiō, from interrogō, from inter- (“between; among”) + rogō (“to ask; to request”). Equivalent to inter- + rogation or interrogate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

noun The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.
noun A question put; an inquiry.

Etymology [L. interrogatio: cf. F. interrogation.]

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

Sanskrit

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

परिप्रश्न pari-praśna question, interrogation, inquiry.
ऊम् ūm an interjection of interrogation; of anger; of reproach, abuse, envy, and arrogance.
कथम् katham how? in what manner? whence?. Sometimes katham merely introduces an interrogation.
कथा kathā (for katham ), Vedic how? whence? why? Sometimes merely a particle of interrogation.
उम् um an interjection of anger, interrogation, promise or assent, of cordiality or pacification.
किस् kis a particle of interrogation, ‘whether, if;’ according to native commentators = kartṛ, ‘a doer;’
क ka is often followed by the particles iva, u, nāma, nu, vā, svid, some of which serve merely to generalize the …
कुविद् kuvid a particle of interrogation, ‘if, whether;’ or used in direct questions; (a verb following this particle doe…

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