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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transitive

/ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms transitives

  1. adjective Making a transit or passage.
  2. adjective Affected by transference of signification.
  3. adjective (grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects. “The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".”
  4. adjective (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. “"Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.”
  5. adjective (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
  6. adjective (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
  7. adjective (probability) Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
  8. noun (grammar) A transitive verb.

Synonyms

transitive verb transitive verb form

Antonyms

intransitive nontransitive

Etymology

From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.] Bacon.
  2. adjective Effected by transference of signification.

Etymology [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See Transient.]

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

Sanskrit

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