Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

grandma

/ˈɡɹænmɑː/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms grandmas grandma-ing grandmaing grandmaed granma gran'ma gramma

noun (informal) Grandmother.
noun (colloquial, childish) Any elderly woman, regardless of if she has grandchildren.
verb (informal, rare, transitive) To address (someone) as “grandma”.
verb (informal, rare, ambitransitive) To be or act as a grandmother to (someone).
proper noun (slang, derogatory) An unfriendly and disparaging way of addressing an elderly woman whose name is unknown.

Synonyms

From grand- + ma, after grandmother.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “grandma”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details