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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somewhat

UK /ˈsʌmwɒt/ · US /ˈsʌmwʌt/ adverb, pronoun, noun

Forms somewhats summat

  1. adverb To a limited extent or degree; not completely. “The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.”
  2. adverb (UK, meiosis) Very. “That hat seems somewhat small for him.”
  3. pronoun (archaic) Something.
  4. noun A certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
  5. noun A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

Synonyms

a bit a touch only just acceptably adequately averagely fairly halfway in a way indifferent mackly moderately middlesome middling middlingly not quite partially passably quite rather slightly more or less reasonably pretty jolly

Antonyms

absolutely quite wholly totally all-out tout à fait all the way stone-cold blind altogether stark cold

Etymology

From some + what.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
  2. noun A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
  3. adverb In some degree or measure; a little.

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

Sanskrit

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

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