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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“recognizing” is a form of

recognize

/ˈɹɛk.əɡ.naɪz/ verb

Forms recognizes recognizing recognized recognise re-cognize

  1. verb (transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing. “I recognized his face immediately, although his voice was different.”
  2. verb (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration. “The US and a number of EU countries are expected to recognize Kosovo on Monday.”
  3. verb (transitive, or with clause) To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property). “Slavery is widely recognized as immoral.”
  4. verb (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.
  5. verb (transitive) To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc. “His services were recognized in a testimonial.”
  6. verb (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
  7. verb (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
  8. verb (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
  9. verb to cognize again

Synonyms

place acknowledge recognise know realize realise agnize agnise spot distinguish discern pick out make out tell apart accredit greet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French reconoistre, from Old French reconoistre, from Latin recognoscere, first attested in the 16th century. Displaced native English acknow (“to recognize, perceive as”), compare German erkennen and Swedish erkänna. Latin had rare recognizare (“to try by jury”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of. Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen. Harte.
  2. verb To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.
  3. verb To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A, B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. [Written also recognise.]

Etymology [From Recognizance; see Cognition, and cf. Reconnoiter.]

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

Sanskrit

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