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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necessary

UK /ˈnɛs.ə.sɹi/ · US /ˈnɛs.əˌsɛ.ɹi/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms necessarier necessariest necessaries necessarys

  1. adjective Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty. “Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.”
  2. adjective Unavoidable, inevitable. “If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.”
  3. adjective (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
  4. noun (archaic, euphemistic) A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
  5. noun (obsolete) Necessity.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

basic essential indispensable necessar necessitous needed prerequisite required requisite inevitable natural bathroom latrine necessarium toilet toilet room urinal water closet WC cloaca necessity requirement

Antonyms

unnecessary evitable incidental impossible

Etymology

From Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessārius (“unavoidable, inevitable, required”), variant of necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”), probably from ne or non cessum, from the perfect passive participle of cēdō (“yield; avoid, withdraw”); see cede.
Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and Latin necessārium, a medieval term for the place for monks’ “unavoidable” business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
  2. adjective Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential. "'T is necessary he should die." Shak.
  3. noun A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; --used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
  4. noun A privy; a water-closet.

Etymology [L. necessarius, from necesse unavoidable, necessary; of uncertain origin: cf. F. nécessaire.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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