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.

behoove

/bɪˈhuːv/ verb

Also a form of behove

Forms behooves behooving behooved behooven

verb (transitive, chiefly US) To befit, be appropriate or necessary to somebody. Alternative form of behove. “It ill behooves my mother to complain.”
verb (intransitive) To be fitting.

Synonyms

See behove.

verb To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; --mostly used impersonally.
verb To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer.
noun Advantage; behoof. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. bihoven, behoven, AS. beh to have need of, fr. beh. See Behoof.]

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