Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

come down

verb

Forms comes down coming down came down

verb (intransitive) To descend, fall down, collapse. “A tree came down and hit me on the head.”
verb (intransitive) To be demolished. “The damage sustained in the fire is so great that the whole building will have to come down.”
verb (intransitive) To decrease. “Real estate prices have come down since the peak of the boom.”
verb (intransitive) To reach or release a decision. “I can't guess which way the board will come down on the project.”
verb (intransitive) To be passed through time. “Much wisdom has come down in the form of proverbs.”
verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To return from an elevated state of consciousness (especially when drug-induced) or emotion. “He finally came down from his post-bonus high.”
verb (impersonal, UK) To rain. “It's coming down heavily now.”
verb (intransitive, UK) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.

Synonyms

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