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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occasion

/əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/ noun, verb

Forms occasions occasioning occasioned

  1. noun A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance. “At this point, she seized the occasion to make her own observation.”
  2. noun The time when something happens. “On this occasion, I'm going to decline your offer, but next time I might agree.”
  3. noun An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason. “I had no occasion to feel offended, however.”
  4. noun Something which causes something else; a cause.
  5. noun (obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
  6. noun A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred. “I could think of two separate occasions when she had deliberately lied to me.”
  7. noun A need; requirement, necessity. “I have no occasion for firearms.”
  8. noun A special event or function. “Having people round for dinner was always quite an occasion at our house.”
  9. verb (transitive) To cause; to produce; to induce “It is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity.”

Synonyms

event happening affair befalling episode instance goings-on hap incident occurrence proceeding instant point in time juncture minute moment sith time social occasion function social function

Etymology

From Middle English occasioun, from Middle French occasion, from Old French occasiun, from Latin occāsiōnem, noun of action from perfect passive participle occāsus, from verb occidō, from prefix ob- (“down", "away”) + verb cadō (“fall”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.
  2. noun A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.
  3. verb To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety. South.

Etymology [F. occasion, L. occasio, fr.occidere, occasum, to fall down; ob (see Ob-) + cadere to fall. See Chance, and cf. Occident.]

Etymology [Cf.F. occasionner.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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