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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occur

UK /əˈkɜː/ · US /əˈkɝ/ verb

Forms occurs occurring occurred occurre

  1. verb (intransitive) To happen or take place. “The liftoff will occur in exactly twelve seconds.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To present or offer itself. “I will write if the opportunity occurs.”
  3. verb (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself. “One little incident of my school days occurs to me as amusing.”
  4. verb (intransitive, sciences) To be present or found. “The chemical monofluoroacetate occurs in all parts of Dichapetalum cymosum, and is responsible for its toxic effects.”

Synonyms

belimp appear arise come up hit betide betime come to pass happen take place hap go on pass off pass fall out come about come

Etymology

Originally "meet (in argument)", borrowed from Middle French occurrer, from Latin occurrō (“run to meet, run against, befall, present itself”) from prefix ob- (“against”) + verb currō (“run, hurry, move”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To meet; to clash. [Obs.]
  2. verb To go in order to meet; to make reply. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. occurrere, occursum; ob (see Ob-) + currere to run. See Course.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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