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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fall into

verb

Forms falls into falling into fell into fallen into

  1. verb (transitive, literally) To go into something by falling. “The cat might fall into the pool if you're not careful.”
  2. verb (transitive) To visit (a place or a person). “I hope to see her whenever I next fall into the area.”
  3. verb To enter a condition or state, especially a negative one. “After it closed, the old mall fell into disrepair.”
  4. verb (idiomatic, transitive) To enter something (especially a profession) without having planned it. “Most of us didn't plan to be designers; we just fell into the job.”
  5. verb (idiomatic, transitive) To be classified as; to fall under. “Trees fall into two main categories: deciduous and evergreen.”

Synonyms

fall under

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