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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break in

verb

Forms breaks in breaking in broke in broken in

  1. verb (intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means. “Someone broke in and stole his radio.”
  2. verb (transitive) To smash (something) by forcing it inward.
  3. verb (ambitransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To reach a state of functioning more smoothly through use or wear; to cause (something, or someone, new) to undergo this change. “These shoes will be more comfortable after they have broken in.”
  4. verb (transitive, idiomatic) Starting something brand new or at a new level. “He broke in with the New York Yankees.”
  5. verb (transitive, of a horse) To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.
  6. verb (transitive, colloquial) To take the virginity of a girl, to deflower.
  7. verb (intransitive) To interrupt one's conversation; speak before another person has finished speaking.
  8. verb (transitive, slang) To initiate a new person into prostitution or prison sex acts.

Synonyms

run in wear in break chime in cut in put in butt in chisel in barge in

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “break in”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details