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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where

/ˈwɛə/ adverb, conjunction, pronoun, noun

Forms wheres quhar quher quhere

  1. adverb (interrogative) In, at or to what place. “Where are you?”
  2. adverb In what situation. “Where would we be without our parents?”
  3. adverb In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that). “Stay where you are.”
  4. adverb In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere. “Please sit where you like.”
  5. adverb (relative) In, at or to which. “This is the place where we first met.”
  6. adverb (fused relative) The place in, at or to which. “He lives within five miles of where he was born.”
  7. adverb (fused relative, informal) A situation or case in which. “A function is where two variables are related.”
  8. adverb In a/the situation, position, case, etc. in which. “You cannot be too careful where explosives are involved.”
  9. conjunction While on the contrary; although; whereas. “Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.”
  10. conjunction (informal) That. “I read where they caught the guy.”
  11. pronoun (interrogative) What place. “Where did you come from?”
  12. noun The place in which something happens. “A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.”

Synonyms

whither

Etymology

From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- (interrogative pronoun).

Webster’s 1913

  1. pronoun Whether. [Sometimes written whe'r.] [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
  2. adverb At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; --used interrogatively.
  3. adverb At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; --used relatively.
  4. conjunction Whereas.

Etymology [See Whether.]

Etymology [OE. wher, whar, AS. hw; akin to D. waar, OS. hw, OHG. hwar, war, wa, G. wo, Icel. and Sw. hvar, Dan. hvor, Goth. hwar, and E. who; cf. Skr. karhi when. sq. root182. See Who, and cf. There.]

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

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