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 through

verb

Forms comes through coming through came through

  1. verb To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway. “I can see Mr Smith now. Please ask him to come through.”
  2. verb (idiomatic) To survive, to endure. “He came through the surgery unharmed.”
  3. verb To be communicated or expressed successfully. “The anger in her song really came through.”
  4. verb (intransitive, slang) To provide information on something; to confess.
  5. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To succeed; to survive and overcome struggles. “The team came through in the end and won the pennant.”
  6. verb (with an object preceded by the preposition for or with) To not let somebody down, keep or fulfil one's word or promise; to deliver (something). “She really came through for us when the project was in trouble.”
  7. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, through. “This letter came through the letterbox.”

Synonyms

deliver break through get through survive pull through pull round make it succeed win bring home the bacon deliver the goods

Antonyms

disappoint fail

Etymology

Conflation of Middle English þurȝcomyn (v. inf.), with inseparable prefix, and comen thurgh, a verb-adverb/preposition combination. Cf. German durchkommen, where the prefix is separable. Equivalent to come + through.

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