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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translate

UK /tɹɑːnzˈleɪt/ · US /tɹænzˈleɪt/ verb, noun

Forms translates translating translated translatest translatedst translateth

  1. verb (transitive) To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another. “Hans translated my novel into Welsh.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language. “Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.”
  3. verb (transitive) To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.
  4. verb (transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another. “The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.”
  5. verb (transitive, music) To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
  6. verb (intransitive) To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another. “Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film.”
  7. verb (transitive, genetics) To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
  8. verb Senses relating to a change of position.
  9. noun (mathematical analysis) In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

Synonyms

interpret render transform understand read

Etymology

From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix). Distant doublet of transfer, see collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] Dryden.
  2. verb To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
  3. verb To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

Etymology [f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.]

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