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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sometimes

/ˈsʌm.taɪmz/ adverb, adjective

Forms sts.

  1. adverb On some occasions, over some periods, or in certain circumstances, but not always. “Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit.”
  2. adverb (obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once.
  3. adjective (obsolete) Former; sometime.

Synonyms

at one time or another at times every so often from time to time occasionally once in a while ever and anon every once in a while every now and then intermittently irregularly now and again now and then on occasion sporadically uncommonly while whilom at one time in the past

Etymology

From Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somstiden (“sometimes”), Dutch somtijds, somwijlen (“sometimes”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb Formerly; sometime. [Obs.]
  2. adverb At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally.
  3. adjective Former; sometime. [Obs.]

Etymology [Sometime + adverbial ending -s, as in - wards.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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