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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modal

UK /ˈməʊdəl/ · US /ˈmoʊdəl/ adjective, noun

Forms modals

  1. adjective Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
  2. adjective (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
  3. adjective (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
  4. adjective (of music, by extension) In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
  5. adjective (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
  6. adjective (statistics) Relating to the statistical mode.
  7. adjective (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
  8. adjective (graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
  9. noun (logic) A modal (etymology 1, adjective sense 4) proposition.
  10. noun (linguistics) A modal (etymology 1, adjective sense 2) form, notably a modal auxiliary.
  11. noun (grammar) A modal verb.
  12. noun (graphical user interface) A modal (etymology 1, adjective sense 7) window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
  13. noun (fabric) A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.

Synonyms

forming conditioning modal auxiliary verb modal auxiliary modal verb average

Antonyms

modeless

Etymology

From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”). Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale. By surface analysis, mod(e) + -al.

A genericized trademark of Lenzing AG.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Glanvill.
  2. adjective Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.

Etymology [Cf. F. modal. See Mode.]

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