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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once

/wʌn(t)s/ adverb, conjunction, noun

Forms onces

  1. adverb (frequency) One and only one time. “I have only once eaten pizza.”
  2. adverb (temporal location) Formerly; during some period in the past. “He was once the most handsome man around.”
  3. adverb (chiefly obsolete) At any time; ever. “If the facts once became known, we'd be in trouble.”
  4. adverb (obsolete) One day, someday.
  5. adverb (mathematics) Multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one. “Once three is three.”
  6. conjunction As soon as; when; after. “We'll get a move on once we find the damn car keys!”
  7. noun (fandom slang) A fan of the Korean girl band Twice.

Synonyms

one time formerly oncet yance wunst immediately in one case at one time erstwhile erst

Antonyms

four times often thrice twice

Etymology

From Middle English ones, from Old English ānes, a remodelling (after ān (“one”)) of ǣnes, itself an extension of ǣne (“once”) with the genitive suffix -es. Equivalent to one + -s. Cognate with Saterland Frisian enst, insen (“once”), West Frisian iens (“once”), Dutch eens (“once”), German Low German eens, ins (“once”), German einst (“once”). More at one (including regarding the development of the pronunciation) and -s.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The ounce.
  2. adverb By limitation to the number one; for one time; not twice nor any number of times more than one. Ye shall . . . go round about the city once. Josh. vi. 3.
  3. adverb At some one period of time; --used indefinitely.

Etymology [OE. ones, anes, an adverbial form fr. one, on, an, one. See One-, -Wards.]

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

Sanskrit

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