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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penetrate

/ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/ verb

Forms penetrates penetrating penetrated

  1. verb To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce. “Light penetrates darkness.”
  2. verb (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand. “I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.”
  3. verb To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply. “to penetrate one's heart with pity”
  4. verb To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
  5. verb To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus. “a male elephant comes up and penetrates the female”
  6. verb (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.

Synonyms

ransack perforate fathom bottom click get through dawn come home get across sink in fall into place infiltrate permeate pervade interpenetrate diffuse imbue riddle

Etymology

From Latin penētrātus, perfect passive participle of penētrō (“to put, set, or place within, enter, pierce, penetrate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from penes (“within, with”) by analogy to intrō (“to go in, enter”). Compare French pénétrer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.
  2. verb To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity. Shak.
  3. verb To pass; to make way; to pierce. Also used figuratively.

Etymology [L. penetratus, p.p. of penetrare to penetrate; akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the power of, penus store of food, innermost part of a temple.]

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

Sanskrit

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