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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paid

/peɪd/ adjective

Also a form of pay

Forms payed

  1. adjective Not free of charge; costing money. “paid service”
  2. adjective Receiving pay. “paid worker”
  3. adjective For which pay is given. “paid holiday”
  4. adjective (slang) Having money (i.e. rich, wealthy, etc.). “I thought his house would be nicer than this. I thought that motherf*cker was paid.”

Synonyms

nonfree for-pay nonrecreational gainful paying

Antonyms

free gratis unpaid

Etymology

From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay + -ed.

From pay + -ed.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.
  2. verb Satisfied; contented. [Obs.] "Paid of his poverty." Chaucer.

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

Sanskrit

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