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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verbal

UK /ˈvɜː.bəl/ · US /ˈvɝ.bəl/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms verbals verbaling verballing verbaled verballed

  1. adjective Of or relating to words.
  2. adjective Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
  3. adjective Consisting of words only.
  4. adjective Expressly spoken rather than written; oral. “a verbal contract”
  5. adjective (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
  6. adjective (grammar) Used to form a verb.
  7. adjective Capable of speech.
  8. adjective Word for word. “a verbal translation”
  9. noun (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
  10. noun (countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
  11. noun (uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
  12. verb (transitive, UK, Australia) To allege (usually falsely) that someone has made an oral admission.

Synonyms

wordish rhematic literal verbatim lectic non-finite verb

Antonyms

substantive preverbal non-verbal implied unsaid numerical

Etymology

From Old French verbal, from Late Latin verbālis (“belonging to a word”). Equivalent to verb + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
  2. adjective Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
  3. noun A noun derived from a verb.

Etymology [F., fr. L. verbalis. See Verb.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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