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 to

/kʌm ˈtu/ verb

Forms comes to coming to came to

  1. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To recover consciousness after fainting etc. “She came to with the aid of smelling salts.”
  2. verb (intransitive, idiomatic, nautical) To stop a sailing vessel, especially by turning into the wind. See also come about.
  3. verb (transitive) To total; to amount to. “so how much does that come to?; the bill comes to £10 each”
  4. verb (transitive) To reach; to arrive at. “come to an end; come to a conclusion; come to an agreement; come to a halt”
  5. verb (transitive) To seek help from. “You can always come to me when you're feeling sad.”
  6. verb (transitive) To devote attention to in due course; to come around to. “I'll come to your question in a minute.”
  7. verb (transitive) To befall; to happen to; to come upon. “I pray no harm will come to you.”
  8. verb (transitive, usually in present tense) To regard or specifically pertain to. “He's the best when it comes to detective fiction.”

Synonyms

come to one's senses come back to one's senses come to oneself come round come around revive affect hit strike refer pertain relate concern bear on touch touch on have-to doe with resuscitate

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