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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our

/ˈaʊə(ɹ)/ determiner

Forms wor

  1. determiner Belonging to us, excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive our). “Sorry, you're not invited to our party.”
  2. determiner Belonging to us, including the person(s) being addressed (inclusive our). “We must try to save our marriage for the sake of our children.”
  3. determiner Of, from, or belonging to any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc. “Our safety record at ABC Widgets is very good.”
  4. determiner Belonging to people in general. “As we get older, our reactions get slower.”
  5. determiner (colloquial) Belonging to everyone being addressed. “How are we all tonight? Have we got our happy faces on?”
  6. determiner (colloquial, may seem patronising) Belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially of a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given. “How are we feeling this morning, Mrs Miggins? Have we taken our tablets yet?”
  7. determiner (colloquial, uncommon) Belonging to a third person, especially someone in the speaker's care. “"I've just been to see Mrs Miggins." — "And how is she?" — "Not too good today. We've had a little problem with our tummy."”
  8. determiner (colloquial) Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners. “Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. First, let's get our ingredients weighed out.”

Etymology

From Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, ūser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Scots oor (“our”), West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser, unsere (“our”) Danish vor (“our”), Norwegian vår (“our”), and more distantly Latin noster.

Webster’s 1913

  1. Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us; as, our country; our rights; our troops; our endeavors. See I. The Lord is our defense. Ps. lxxxix. 18.
  2. See -or.

Etymology [AS. our, of us; akin to us, to us, and to G. unser our, of us, Goth. unsara. sq. root186 See Us.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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