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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relevant

/ˈɹɛləvənt/ adjective

  1. adjective Related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.
  2. adjective (especially) Directly related, connected, or pertinent, with important ramifications or implications. “His mother provided some relevant background information concerning his medical condition.”
  3. adjective Not out of date; current.
  4. adjective (slang, by extension) Famous, popular, or noteworthy in a contemporary context.

Synonyms

applicable current prevailing prevalent rife up-to-date germane in point pertinent salient

Antonyms

irrelevant

Etymology

From Scots relevant meaning "legally pertinent," used in Scottish legal circles starting in the early 1500s, and first used in English in the 1700s. Borrowed from Latin relevāns, relevāntem, present active participle of relevō (“lift up again, lighten, relieve”), from re- (“again”) + levō (“lift”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Relieving; lending aid or support. [R.] Pownall.
  2. adjective Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent; applicable.

Etymology [F. relevant, p. pr. of relever to raise again, to relieve. See Relieve.]

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

Sanskrit

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