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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“proves” is a form of

prove

UK /ˈpɹuːv/ · US /ˈpɹuv/ verb, noun

Forms proves proving proved proven provest provedst proveth proove

  1. verb (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify. “I will prove that my method is more effective than yours.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest. “It proved to be a cold day.”
  3. verb (copulative) To turn out to be. “Have an exit strategy should your calculations prove incorrect.”
  4. verb (transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of. “They took the experimental car to the proving-grounds.”
  5. verb (transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify. “to prove a will”
  6. verb (archaic, transitive) To experience.
  7. verb (printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
  8. verb (homeopathy) To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
  9. noun (baking) The process of dough proofing.

Synonyms

substantiate turn out turn up demonstrate establish show shew testify bear witness evidence test try try out examine essay rise raise leaven

Antonyms

disprove

Etymology

From Middle English proven, from Old English prōfian (“to esteem, regard as, evince, try, prove”) and Old French prover (“to prove”), both from Latin probō (“test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove”, verb), from probus (“good, worthy, excellent”), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front, prominent”), from *pro-, *per- (“toward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). Displaced native Middle English sothen (“to prove”), from Old English sōþian (“to prove”). Doublet of probe. More at for, be, soothe.

Simple past form of proove, conjugated as a Germanic strong verb, on the pattern of choose → chose.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
  2. verb To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
  3. verb To make trial; to essay.
  4. verb To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false. "The case proves mortal." Arbuthnot.

Etymology [OE. prover, F. prouver, fr. L. probare to try, approve, prove, fr. probus good, proper. Cf. Probable, Proof, Probe.]

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

Sanskrit

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