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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plural

/ˈplʊəɹəl/ adjective, noun

Forms plurals pl. pl

  1. adjective Consisting of or containing more than one of something. “The notion of culture is one whose meanings are plural and shifting.”
  2. adjective (grammar) In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual. “English nouns usually have singular and plural forms.”
  3. adjective (comparable) Pluralistic.
  4. adjective (multiplicity, not comparable, of a person) Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder.
  5. noun (grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
  6. noun (grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. “The plural of 'cat' is 'cats', but the plural of 'child' is 'children'.”
  7. noun (multiplicity, countable) A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.

Synonyms

manifold multiple morefold several system plural form

Antonyms

singular

Etymology

From Middle English plurelle, from Old French plurel (“plural”), Borrowed from Latin plūrālis (“of or belonging to more than one, belonging to many”, adjective), from plūs, plūris (“more”) + -ālis.

Webster’s 1913

  1. Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word.
  2. noun The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.

Etymology [L. pluralis, from plus, pluris, more; cf. F. pluriel, OF. plurel. See Plus.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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