📘 -ED · -S · -ES
tap any word → hear the ending sound
🎧
Repeat after your instructor (or the audio)
First, say the
base word
, then say the word with its appropriate ending.
✨ example: walk → walked | play → plays | watch → watches
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-ED
/t/
🔊 aspirated endings · unvoiced consonants (p, k, f, s, ʃ, tʃ ...)
walked
helped
laughed
kissed
watched
stopped
jumped
talked
fixed
pushed
washed
danced
mixed
locked
packed
-ED
/d/
🎤 voiced endings or after vowels · (b, g, v, ð, z, ʒ, m, n, ŋ, l, r, w, j + vowels)
played
cleaned
opened
called
lived
answered
arrived
believed
carried
enjoyed
followed
learned
moved
showed
used
-ED
/ɪd/
📌 extra syllable · after
t
or
d
sounds
wanted
needed
decided
started
visited
waited
invited
avoided
counted
printed
landed
painted
folded
recorded
repeated
-S
/s/
💨 unvoiced: after p, t, k, f, θ (voiceless consonants)
sleeps
cats
books
cups
hats
laughs
stops
maps
hits
kicks
fits
cups
cliffs
graphs
beliefs
-S
/z/
🐝 voiced / vowels, b, g, l, m, n, r, w, y, ð, etc.
goes
dogs
plays
runs
lives
frogs
sees
says
hears
calls
drives
comes
feels
stands
brings
-ES
/ɪz/
➕ extra syllable: s, z, ʃ, tʃ, dʒ, ʒ sounds
loses
watches
buses
dishes
boxes
teaches
rises
washes
pushes
matches
judges
sizes
phrases
garages
messages