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 out

verb

Forms goes out going out went out gone out

  1. verb To leave, especially a building. “Please go out through the back door.”
  2. verb (idiomatic) To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment. “They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.”
  3. verb To be eliminated from a competition. “Our team went out in the third round.”
  4. verb To be turned off or extinguished. “The lights went out while I was taking a shower.”
  5. verb To go unconscious; to pass out. “When I hit him, he hit the floor and went out.”
  6. verb To be drained from; to disappear from somebody. “All the fizz has already gone out of the election campaign.”
  7. verb To become extinct, to expire.
  8. verb To die. “As much as you may want to plan your funeral, you can't control when you go out.”

Synonyms

date exit get out leave go steady see

Antonyms

stay in come in

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