into

/ɪntu/8 verbsVowel-initial — links backwards

Movement inward that changes state, position, or direction.

INTO covers transformation (turn into), sudden encounter (run into, bump into) and forced entry (break into).

It is always inseparable, and it always takes an object.

What it does to the sound

The T sits between two vowels, so American speakers flap it: INTO is “in-doo” or, even faster, “inna”. Run into her becomes “ru-ninner” in casual speech.

What INTO means

Transformation — become something else

One state changes into another.

turn into grow intomake into

Encounter — meet by chance

An unplanned collision, literal or social.

run intobump intowalk into

Entry — often forced

Getting inside, usually without permission.

break into get into look into

Every verb that takes INTO

The complete list — 8 of them. The section above groups the common ones by what INTO is doing.

breakinto2
eatinto
getinto2
growinto2
lookinto
runinto3
talkinto
turninto

The particle INTO — what it does to a verb