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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run into

verb

Forms runs into running into ran into

  1. verb (intransitive but with prepositional object, literally) To enter by running. “He ran into the building.”
  2. verb (intransitive but with prepositional object) To collide with. “He lost control of the vehicle and ran into a tree.”
  3. verb (transitive and with prepositional object) To cause to collide with. “He lost control of the vehicle and ran it into a tree.”
  4. verb (intransitive but with prepositional object, by extension) To unexpectedly encounter or meet someone or something (literally or figuratively). “I ran into your cousin the other day.”
  5. verb (intransitive but with prepositional object, dated, of flowing water) To reach, to flow into (a body of water).
  6. verb (intransitive but with prepositional object) To blend into; to be followed by or adjacent to without there being a clear boundary.
  7. verb (transitive and with prepositional object) To cause to blend into. “You can use the paintbrush this way to run the colors into each other.”
  8. verb To reach a large figure. “By the end, the cost of the project ran into the millions of dollars.”

Synonyms

encounter bump into jar against butt against knock against hit strike impinge on collide with meet run across come across see

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