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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

narrative

/ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms narratives

  1. adjective Telling a story.
  2. adjective Overly talkative; garrulous.
  3. adjective Of or relating to narration. “the narrative thrust of a film”
  4. noun The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
  5. noun That which is narrated.
  6. noun A representation of an event or story in a way to promote a certain point of view. “changing, controlling the narrative”
  7. noun (creative writing) A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work. “The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling.”

Synonyms

narration story tale

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”). By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -ive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.
  2. adjective Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous.
  3. noun That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story.

Etymology [Cf. F. narratif.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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