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 up

verb, noun

Forms comes up coming up came up come ups

  1. verb (idiomatic, intransitive) To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. “Unless anything comes up, I'll be there every day this week.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To be revealed to have a certain value, quality, or status. “The movie didn't come up to our expectations.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To come to attention and present oneself; to arrive or appear. “At some point in the conversation my name came up, and I readily agreed to their proposition.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To appear (before a judge or court). “He came up before a judge and was fined a thousand dollars.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To draw near in time. “The summer holidays are coming up.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To approach a time or scheduled event. “We're coming up on the interview in the last half-hour of the program.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To reach in height. “You have to come up to here to ride this roller-coaster.”
  8. verb (intransitive, of a heavenly body) To rise (above the horizon). “It'll be warmer once the sun comes up.”
  9. noun An opportunity

Synonyms

arise come surface rise up rise bob up lift move up go up uprise go on come on line up get hold find ascend scrape scrape up scratch muster rally summon muster up

Antonyms

come down go down

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