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We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.
Chester Bennington

Meaning of "come to" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COME TO

come to play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COME TO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Come to is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb come to in English.

WHAT DOES COME TO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of come to in the English dictionary

The first definition of come to in the dictionary is or prep. and reflexive to regain consciousness or return to one's normal state. Other definition of come to is to slow a vessel or bring her to a stop. Come to is also to amount to.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO COME TO

PRESENT

Present
I come to
you come to
he/she/it comes to
we come to
you come to
they come to
Present continuous
I am coming to
you are coming to
he/she/it is coming to
we are coming to
you are coming to
they are coming to
Present perfect
I have come to
you have come to
he/she/it has come to
we have come to
you have come to
they have come to
Present perfect continuous
I have been coming to
you have been coming to
he/she/it has been coming to
we have been coming to
you have been coming to
they have been coming to
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I came to
you came to
he/she/it came to
we came to
you came to
they came to
Past continuous
I was coming to
you were coming to
he/she/it was coming to
we were coming to
you were coming to
they were coming to
Past perfect
I had come to
you had come to
he/she/it had come to
we had come to
you had come to
they had come to
Past perfect continuous
I had been coming to
you had been coming to
he/she/it had been coming to
we had been coming to
you had been coming to
they had been coming to
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will come to
you will come to
he/she/it will come to
we will come to
you will come to
they will come to
Future continuous
I will be coming to
you will be coming to
he/she/it will be coming to
we will be coming to
you will be coming to
they will be coming to
Future perfect
I will have come to
you will have come to
he/she/it will have come to
we will have come to
you will have come to
they will have come to
Future perfect continuous
I will have been coming to
you will have been coming to
he/she/it will have been coming to
we will have been coming to
you will have been coming to
they will have been coming to
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would come to
you would come to
he/she/it would come to
we would come to
you would come to
they would come to
Conditional continuous
I would be coming to
you would be coming to
he/she/it would be coming to
we would be coming to
you would be coming to
they would be coming to
Conditional perfect
I would have come to
you would have come to
he/she/it would have come to
we would have come to
you would have come to
they would have come to
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been coming to
you would have been coming to
he/she/it would have been coming to
we would have been coming to
you would have been coming to
they would have been coming to
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you come to
we let´s come to
you come to
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to come to
Past participle
come to
Present Participle
coming to
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COME TO

come out
come out in the wash
come out of one´s shell
come over
come round
come the raw prawn
come through
come to an end
come to blows
come to grief
come to hand
come to life
come to light
come to light with
come to one´s knowledge
come to pass
come to rest
come to terms
come to the party
come to the surface

WORDS THAT END LIKE COME TO

accessible to
bring home to
come home to
do justice to
do violence to
due to
give pause to
give rise to
give the lie to
heave to
lay siege to
lie to
not hold a candle to
opposite to
rise to
set fire to
take to
tumble to
turn a blind eye to
with an eye to

Synonyms and antonyms of come to in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COME TO»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «come to» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of come to

Translation of «come to» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COME TO

Find out the translation of come to to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of come to from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «come to» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

llegado a
570 millions of speakers

English

come to
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

के लिए आते हैं
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تأتي ل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прийти к
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আসো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

venir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

datang ke
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gekommen, um
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

に来て
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Teka
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đến
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ये
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

venire
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przyjść do
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прийти до
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vin la
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έρχονται σε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

komma till
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kommer til
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of come to

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COME TO»

The term «come to» is very widely used and occupies the 4.675 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COME TO» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «come to» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «come to» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about come to

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «COME TO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word come to.
1
Cecelia Ahern
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.
2
Kelley Armstrong
I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.
3
Christian Bale
It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
4
Chester Bennington
We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.
5
Mark Bittman
I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.
6
Marcus Buckingham
In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.
7
Ursula Burns
As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.
8
Giraldus Cambrensis
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
9
Lewis Carroll
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
10
Susan Choi
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COME TO»

Discover the use of come to in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to come to and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Come to Me Quietly: The Closer to You Series
From the acclaimed bestselling author of Lost to You and When We Collide comes a New Adult novel of one woman’s obsession: a man who’s as passionate as he is elusive—and as tempting as he is trouble.
A. L. Jackson, 2014
2
Come to Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind-Body Connection
In this newly revised edition of the award-winning Come to Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind-Body Connection, Dr. Stanley Block offers his Ten-Day Plan to optimize your life -- a breakthrough program that has helped people all over the ...
Stanley Block, 2007
3
Come to the Edge: A Memoir
The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag • New York Times bestseller When Christina Haag was growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny ...
Christina Haag, 2011
4
Come to Me: Stories
A collection of short stories that explore powerful, dangerous and forbidden emotions. The book presents a range of narrative voices and situations.
Amy Bloom, 1995
5
The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in ...
'The best volume on the Russian Revolution in years .
Alexander Rabinowitch, 2004
6
Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate ...
Never Come to Peace Again, the first complete account of Pontiac’s Uprising to appear in nearly fifty years, is a richly detailed account of the causes, conduct, and consequences of events that proved pivotal in American colonial history.
David Dixon, 2005
7
How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistory
"--The Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Sciences "In the present volume, Earle weaves together variation and pattern to bring us the very best of anthropology. . . . [Earle's] latest work is a powerful synthesis of ...
Timothy K. Earle, 1997
8
Come to Tea: Fun Tea Party Themes, Recipes, Crafts, Games, ...
Provides instructions for creating several different tea parties, with such themes as a princess party, a teddy bears' picnic, and a pajama breakfast tea party. Includes recipes, games, crafts and other activities.
Stephanie Dunnewind, 2003
9
I Do Not Come To You By Chance
But behind the emails lie real people and real stories.We Do Not Come to You by Chance takes this idea and turns it on its head, imagining the life of a young man who gets sucked into the 419 world.
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, 2009
10
Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life : the Story of ...
Do Abominable Snowmen exist?
Ivan T. Sanderson, 1961

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COME TO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term come to is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Greece gets until Sunday to come up with proposal to stave off …
... Thursday, cash withdrawals have been limited for just as long, and daily business throughout the country has come to a near standstill. «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
2
California's Stalled Right-to-Die Bill Will Come Too Late for …
“It was particularly tough for me to hear the news today and then come to the doctor's office to hear that my last-ditch chemo that's been working ... «Yahoo Health, Jul 15»
3
With tarp out of control, McCutchen and other Pirates come to rescue
The grounds crew at PNC Park was trying to put the tarp on the infield Tuesday night when the game between Pittsburgh and San Diego was ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»
4
Stock Corrections Come to Europe as Greece Hits Italy, Spain
While most financial markets were spared selloffs Monday, it was hardly a good day in equities -- especially those perceived as vulnerable to ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
5
Want to Meet Americas Worst Racists Come to the Northwest
Much of the national debate over racism in the aftermath of last month's mass murder in Charleston, S.C., has focused on the South and its ... «Politico, Jul 15»
6
Adam Lallana must improve and come to the fore for Liverpool next …
He must come to fore at Anfield in 2015/16. LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Saturday, September 13, 2014: Liverpool's Adam Lallana in action. «This Is Anfield, Jul 15»
7
'Lenin' and 'Stalin' Come to Blows in Moscow's Red Square
Stalin and Lenin came to blows not far from Moscow's famed Red Square on Monday evening. At least that's how Lenin tells it. «ABC News, Jul 15»
8
All Market Bubbles Must Come To An End
dollar money bubble Tony Daltorio: Since hitting a high on June 12, the Shanghai Composite Index has tumbled nearly 30%. The recent rout in ... «ETF Daily News, Jul 15»
9
Many docs come to work sick
Many doctors, nurses, midwives and physicians assistants come to work sick even through they know it puts patients at risk, a new survey ... «AsiaOne, Jul 15»
10
Firefighters, neighbour come to aid of Babies the cat
Nick St. Laurent dries off Babies after the cat was rescued from an apartment fire. Anaïs Voski / Ottawa Citizen. Share Adjust Comment Print. «Ottawa Citizen, Jul 15»

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