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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past

UK /pɑːst/ · US /pæst/ noun, adjective, adverb, preposition

Forms pasts

  1. noun The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future. “a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past”
  2. noun (grammar) The past tense.
  3. adjective Having already happened; in the past; finished. “past glories”
  4. adjective (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
  5. adjective Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous. “during the past year”
  6. adjective (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state. “past tense”
  7. adverb In a direction that passes. “I watched him walk past.”
  8. preposition Beyond in place or quantity. “the room past mine”
  9. preposition (time) Any number of minutes after the last hour. “What's the time? - It's now quarter past twelve midday (or 12.15pm) -O,K., we'll stop at half (past) twelve”
  10. preposition No longer capable of. “I'm past caring what he thinks of me.”
  11. preposition Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
  12. preposition Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed. “Ignore them, we'll play past them.”

Synonyms

foretime yestertide bygone foregone preceding used-to-be backward forepassed forepast historic historical hoary long ago olden preterite by past times yesteryear past tense retiring

Antonyms

future present to

Etymology

From Middle English passed, past participle of passen (“to pass, to go by”), whence Modern English pass.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. "Past ages." Milton. Past master. See under Master.
  2. noun A former time or state; a state of things gone by. "The past, at least, is secure." D. Webster.
  3. preposition Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. "Who being past feeling." Eph. iv. 19. "Galled past endurance." Macaulay.
  4. preposition Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.

Etymology [From Pass, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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