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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pretend

/pɹəˈtɛnd/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms pretends pretending pretended

  1. verb (intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance. “You don't have to pretend that the soup tastes fine.”
  2. verb To engage in make-believe. “She moved her fingers across the desk, pretending to play the piano.”
  3. verb (transitive) To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.). “She's pretending illness to get out of the business meeting.”
  4. verb (intransitive with 'to', formal, originally transitive) To lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.). “The family's exile was intended to stop them pretending to the throne.”
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.
  8. adjective Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned. “As children we used to go on "spying" missions around the neighbour's house, but it was all pretend.”
  9. noun (childish, informal) The act of engaging in pretend play. “We used to dress up in our grandparents' old clothes and play pretend.”

Synonyms

make like mimic make-believe feign sham affect dissemble act guess venture hazard make make believe profess

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pretendre, Middle French pretendre (French prétendre (“to claim, demand”)), from Latin praetendere (“to put forward, hold out, pretend”), from prae- (“pre-”) + tendō (“stretch”); see tend.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
  2. verb To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden. [R.]
  3. verb To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; --usually with to. "Countries that pretend to freedom." Swift.
  4. verb To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep. "[He] pretended to drink the waters." Macaulay.

Etymology [OE. pretenden to lay claim to, F. prétendre, L. praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward, pretend, simulate, assert; prae before + tendere to stretch. See Tend, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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