It’s difficult to know how to pronounce 'ed' in English, because it’s pronounced in three different ways. It depends on the letter before:
The three ways are:
1:‘id’ (like in painted 'paint-id')
2:‘d’ (like in ‘played’)
3:‘t’ (like in 'hoped')
The most important thing to remember is this:
If the verb has a ‘d’ or a ‘t’ sound before ‘ed’ you need to pronounce ‘id’. If it doesn’t, don’t pronounce an extra syllable.
Be careful! It’s the sound, not the letter: ‘decide’ is pronounced ‘decide-id’ even though it ends in ‘e’, because we don’t say the ‘e’, so the last sound is ‘d’.
So for example:
wanted (want-id)
ended(end-id)
decided(decide-id)
admitted(admit-id)
suggested(suggest-id)
recommended(recommend-id)
hated (hate-id)
intended(intend-id)
started (start-id)
For the other two sounds it doesn't matter so much. Just make sure you don’t say ‘-id’! For example, 'stopped' is pronounced 'stopt' and never 'stop-id'.
If the word before ‘ed’ ends in the sounds ‘p’, ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘k’, then ‘ed’ is pronounced ‘t’: So:
‘p’stopped
‘f’laughed
‘s’promised
‘ch’ watched
‘sh’ finished
‘k’walked
For all other words, ‘ed’ is pronounced ‘d’:
allowed
cried
enjoyed
cleaned
imagined
