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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somewhere

UK /ˈsʌm.wɛː/ · US /ˈsʌm.wɛɹ/ adverb, noun

Forms somewheres

  1. adverb In an uncertain or unspecified location. “I must have left my glasses somewhere.”
  2. adverb To an uncertain or unspecified location. “He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.”
  3. adverb At some unspecified point. “I don't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere between 200 and 300.”
  4. noun Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
  5. noun (informal, uncommon) A person with strong cultural or social ties that are exclusive to a specific place.

Synonyms

someplace somewheres

Antonyms

anywhere cosmopolite

Etymology

From some + where.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another. "Somewhere nigh at hand." Milton.

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

Sanskrit

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