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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understanding

UK /ʌndəˈstandɪŋ/ · US /ˌʌndɚˈstændɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of understand

Forms understandings

  1. noun (uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning. “There are certain things that defy human understanding.”
  2. noun (countable) Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer. “She has a solid understanding of particle physics.”
  3. noun (countable) Opinion, judgement, or outlook. “According to my understanding, the situation is quite perilous. I wonder if you see it this way, too.”
  4. noun An informal contract; a mutual agreement. “I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash.”
  5. noun A reconciliation of differences. “The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding.”
  6. noun (uncountable) Sympathy. “He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past.”
  7. adjective Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance; sympathetically aware.
  8. adjective (dated) Knowing; skilful.

Synonyms

comprehension grasp apprehension discernment savvy agreement sympathy reason intellect

Etymology

From Middle English understandinge, understondinge, from Old English understanding (“intelligence, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandingu, from Proto-Germanic *understandingō, equivalent to understand + -ing (gerund ending). Cognate with Middle Dutch onderstaninge, Middle Low German understandinge, Middle High German understandunge.

From Middle English understandyng, understondynge, understondinde, undirstondend, understandande, from Old English understandende, from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandandī, from Proto-Germanic *understandandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, intercede, understand”), equivalent to understand + -ing (present participle ending).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
  2. noun The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
  3. noun An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.

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

Sanskrit

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

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