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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go down

verb

Forms goes down going down went down gone down

  1. verb To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. “go down to the grave”
  2. verb (intransitive, of a heavenly body) Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon. “It'll be cooler once the sun goes down.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one. “The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To fall (down); to fall to the floor. “The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.”
  5. verb (aviation, intransitive) To crash. “The plane went down thirty miles from shore.”
  6. verb (nautical, of a ship or boat) To sink. “SMS Pommern went down with all hands at Jutland.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To be received or accepted. “The news didn't go down well with her parents.”
  8. verb (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk. “That meal went down a treat.”

Synonyms

set to disappear below the horizon descend fall come down sink settle go under decline wane crash

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