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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moderately

adverb

  1. adverb In a moderate manner. “During the debate, they disagreed plainly, but moderately.”
  2. adverb To a moderate extent or degree. “They were at least moderately happy with their bonuses.”

Synonyms

small acceptably adequately averagely fairly halfway in a way indifferent mackly middlesome middling middlingly not quite partially passably quite rather reasonably somewhat somewhatly pretty jolly

Antonyms

almost mostly slightly very immoderately

Etymology

From Middle English moderately, moderatelye, moderatliche, moderatly, modiratli; equivalent to moderate + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent.

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

Sanskrit

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

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