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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come across

verb

Forms comes across coming across came across

  1. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, across. “He came across the street towards me.”
  2. verb (figuratively) To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition. “You argued well in court but your firm doesn't pay its lawyers well, so why don't you come across to ours?”
  3. verb (idiomatic) To give an appearance or impression; to project a certain image; to seem or appear (to be some way). [(often) with as; or (often) with like] “How did she come across when you met with her?”
  4. verb (idiomatic, transitive) To find, usually by accident. “In the dark he came across an old box by accident.”
  5. verb To produce what was desired; to come up with the goods. [with with] “He came across with the rest of the money when we mentioned our lawyer.”
  6. verb (idiomatic, intransitive) To give in and do what is wanted or expected; to acquiesce to something.
  7. verb (idiomatic, intransitive) To have sex; to give in to seduction.
  8. verb (idiomatic, intransitive) To confess to something.

Synonyms

come over come off come upon run across encounter happen across come through come around fall upon strike light upon chance upon chance on happen upon attain discover meet run into see resonate

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