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.

immune

/ɪˈmjuːn/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms immunes immuning immuned

adjective (usually with "from") Exempt; not subject to. “As a diplomat, you are immune from prosecution.”
adjective (medicine, usually with "to") Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens. “I am immune to chicken pox.”
adjective (by extension) Not vulnerable. “Alas, he was immune to my charms.”
adjective (medicine) Of or pertaining to immunity. “immune system”
noun (epidemiology) A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease
verb (rare, transitive) To make immune.

Synonyms

From Middle English, from Middle French immun, from Latin immūnis (“exempt from public service”), from in- (“not”) + mūnus (“service”).

Etymology [L. immunis. See Immunity.]

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