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 in

/ˌkʌm ˈɪn/ verb

Forms comes in coming in came in

  1. verb To enter. “Please come in and look around.”
  2. verb To arrive. “That flight just came in.”
  3. verb To become relevant, applicable, or useful.
  4. verb To become available. “Blueberries will be coming in next month.”
  5. verb (of a broadcast, such as radio or television) To have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well. “Most of the neighbors get 14 channels, but only two of them come in well here.”
  6. verb (music) To join or enter; to begin playing with a group. “They started together, but the drummer came in late.”
  7. verb (informal) To enter a plan or group; to join in.
  8. verb (of a fugitive or a person in hiding) To surrender; to turn oneself in.

Synonyms

come across give in give up enter get into get in go into go in move into come interject interpose put in throw in inject place come out

Antonyms

go out

Etymology

From Middle English com in, imperative form of Middle English incomen (“to come in; enter”), from Old English incuman (“to come in; enter”), from Proto-Germanic *inkwemaną (“to come in; enter”), equivalent to come + in. Compare Dutch kom in (“come in”), singular imperative form of inkomen (“to come in; enter”), German einkommen (“to come in; enter”). See also income, incoming.

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