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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

tense

/tɛns/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms tenses tensing tensed tenser tensest

  1. noun (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. “Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.”
  2. noun (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense. “English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense.”
  3. noun (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
  4. noun (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood. “The "simple present" tense in English can have several meanings.”
  5. verb (grammar, transitive) To apply a tense to. “tensing a verb”
  6. adjective Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed. “You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.”
  7. adjective Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
  8. adjective Pulled taut, without any slack.
  9. adjective (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
  10. verb (transitive) To make tense.
  11. verb (intransitive) To become tense.

Synonyms

stressed unrelaxed taut strain tense up

Antonyms

relax relaxed lax

Etymology

From Middle English tens, from Old French tens (modern French temps), from Latin tempus. Doublet of tempo and tempus.

Borrowed from Latin tēnsus, one form of the past participle of tendō (“stretch”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
  2. adjective Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.

Etymology [OF. tens, properly, time, F. temps time, tense. See Temporal of time, and cf. Thing.]

Etymology [L. tensus, p.p. of tendere to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Toise.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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