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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wherever

UK /wɛəˈɹɛvə/ · US /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/ adverb, conjunction

Forms whereever

  1. adverb (interrogative) Where ever; an emphatic form of where. “Wherever have you been all my life?”
  2. adverb (informal) In, at or to any place that one likes or chooses. “I don't care what you do with it; just put it wherever.”
  3. adverb (fused relative) The place (no matter where) in, at or to which. “He's back from wherever he's been hiding.”
  4. conjunction Regardless of the place in, at or to which. “Wherever you go, I’ll find you.”
  5. conjunction In, at or to any place (that); anywhere. “You can sit wherever you like.”
  6. conjunction In, at or to all places or situations (that); everywhere. “Add quotations wherever they are needed.”
  7. conjunction Used to show that one does not know where someone or something is located. “She lives in Puddletown, wherever that is.”

Synonyms

everwhere wheresoever

Etymology

From where + -ever.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb At or in whatever place; wheresoever.

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

Sanskrit

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

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