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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suppose

UK /səˈpəʊz/ · US /səˈpoʊz/ verb

Forms supposes supposing supposed

  1. verb (transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe. “I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution.”
  2. verb (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize. “Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.”
  3. verb (transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To reckon to be, to account or esteem as.
  5. verb (transitive) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature. “Purpose supposes foresight.”
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To put by fraud in the place of another; to substitute fraudulently.

Synonyms

assume arread fancy conject conjecture daresay dope foreguess go out on a limb guess guesstimate hunch hypothesize hypotheticate imagine infer overhope posit postulate presume say think opine reckon speculate theorize theorise hypothesise hypothecate presuppose

Etymology

From Middle English supposen, borrowed from Old French supposer, equivalent to prefix sub- (“under”) + poser (“to place”); corresponding in meaning to Latin supponere (“to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit”), suppositum. See pose.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result Suppose they take offence without a cause. Shak.
  2. verb To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
  3. verb To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion. Acts ii. 15.
  4. noun Supposition. [Obs.] Shak. "A base suppose that he is honest." Dryden.

Etymology [F. supposer; pref. sub- under + poser to place; -- corresponding in meaning to L. supponere, suppositum, to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit. See Pose.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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