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

“needest” is a form of

need

UK /niːd/ · US /nid/ noun, verb

Forms needs needing needed needest neededst needeth

  1. noun (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed. “There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure.”
  2. noun A desire or craving for the satisfaction of a requirement perceived as essential or primal.
  3. noun Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
  4. verb (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for. “Living things need water to survive.”
  5. verb (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. “After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.”
  6. verb (modal, chiefly in the negative and interrogative) To be obliged or required (to do something). “I need not go if I don't want to, need I?”
  7. verb (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
  8. verb (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).

Synonyms

occasion use desire wish for would like want will be without lack be in need of require demand motivation motive indigence penury pauperism pauperization necessitate ask postulate take involve call for

Etymology

From Middle English need, nede, a merger of two terms:
* Old English nīed (West Saxon), nēd (Mercian), nēad (“necessity, compulsion, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *naudi, from Proto-Germanic *naudiz, from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w- (“death”).
* Old English nēod (“desire, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *niudi (“desire, eagerness”), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to incline, tend, move, push, nod, wave”).

From Middle English neden, from Old English nēodian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
  2. noun Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
  3. verb To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
  4. verb To be wanted; to be necessary. Chaucer.

Etymology [OE. need, neod, nede, AS. neád, nyd; akin to D. nood, G. not, noth, Icel. nauedhr, Sw. & Dan. nöd, Goth. naups.]

Etymology [See Need, n. Cf. AS. n to force, Goth. nau.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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