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.

ko

/ˈkəʊ/ noun, proper noun, verb

Forms Kos KO's KOing KO'ing KOed KO'd KO'ed

noun (go) A local shape to which the ko rule applies; a ko shape. “Black gets an easy game by just filling the ko.”
noun (go) ko fight “Black wins the ko easily.”
noun (go) a stone in a ko in atari, a ko stone “Black recaptures the ko and white has to find another ko threat.”
proper noun Synonym of Fungor (“language of Sudan”).
proper noun A surname from Mandarin.
proper noun A surname from Cantonese.
proper noun A surname from Korean.
verb (transitive, boxing) To knock someone out; to render someone unconscious. “Joe KO'd the opposing boxer.”
verb (intransitive, sports) To start play.

Synonyms

Borrowed from Japanese 劫 (kō).

From Mandarin 柯 (Kʻo¹), 葛 (Ko²), Cantonese 高 (gou1), Korean 고(高) (Go), etc.

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