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.

make sense

verb

Forms makes sense making sense made sense

verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To be sensible, coherent, reasonable. “The thing doesn’t make sense to me.”
verb (intransitive, idiomatic, with of) To decipher or understand. “Can you make sense of her handwriting?”
verb (informal) Used to express interest or desire in something; to be pleasing or beneficial; to work, be operative, or be advantageous to. “Maybe we should take a break. I mean, our relationship just isn't making much sense anymore.”
verb (generally negated, bodybuilding slang) To be in the realm of the ordinary, to be not particularly developed. “If you want to grow spinal erectors that don’t make sense, you have to do a lot of bent-over compound lifts.”

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