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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ours

UK /ˈaʊəz/ · US /ˈaʊɚz/ pronoun

Forms our's

  1. pronoun Excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive ours) “You can't take that! It's ours!”
  2. pronoun Including the person(s) being addressed (inclusive ours). “We should ask for it back. After all, it is ours.”
  3. pronoun That or those 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. “French food is better than ours.”
  4. pronoun That or those belonging to people in general. “As we get older, maintaining an active social life should be a priority of ours.”
  5. pronoun (colloquial) That or those belonging to everyone being addressed. “Good evening everyone. How are we all tonight? I know I've got my happy face on; have we all got ours on too?”
  6. pronoun (colloquial, may seem patronising) That or those belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially to a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given. “Hello Mrs Miggins. How are we feeling this morning? Oh, what's that bottle of tablets under our chair? Is that ours?”
  7. pronoun (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. There are lots of recipes for these, but ours is the best.”
  8. pronoun (informal) Our house or home. “You can stay the night at ours if you like.”

Etymology

From Middle English oures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to our + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced ourn (from Middle English ouren) in standard speech.

Webster’s 1913

  1. See Note under Our.

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

Sanskrit

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