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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something

UK [ˈsɐm(p)θɪŋ] · US [ˈsʌm(p)θɪŋ] pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, noun

Forms somethings somethinging somethinged somthing sumthing somethang sumfin sumfin' sumn sumpin sumting sumthang sumfink sth sth. sthg

  1. pronoun An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing. “I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what.”
  2. pronoun (colloquial, of someone or something) A quality to a moderate degree. “The performance was something of a disappointment.”
  3. pronoun (colloquial, of a person) A talent or quality that is difficult to specify. “She has a certain something.”
  4. pronoun (colloquial, often with really or quite) Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way. “He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice.”
  5. adjective Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
  6. adverb (degree) Somewhat; to a degree. “The baby looks something like his father.”
  7. adverb (colloquial, especially in certain set combinations) Used to adverbialise a following adjective
  8. verb (colloquial) Designates an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
  9. noun An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
  10. noun An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).

Synonyms

sth je ne sais quoi

Etymology

From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
  2. noun A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.
  3. , adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak.

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

Sanskrit

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

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