turn out
BothSense-dependent: some meanings take an object and split, others take none. Check the sense you mean.
How to say it
Stress the particle, not the verb: turn OUT. Saying “TURN out” is the clearest learner tell — the verb stays light and the particle carries the beat.
Link across the gap. The final /n/ of “turn” moves onto the particle and starts its syllable: “turn out” is said “tur-nout”. Pausing between the words is what makes phrasal verbs sound recited rather than spoken.
Verb vs noun
As a noun the stress flips to the front: the verb is turn OUT, the noun is TURNOUT. Same two words, different beat — “to turn OUT” is the action, “a turnout” is the thing. Getting this backwards makes the sentence land oddly even when every sound is right.
3 meanings
- 1
To prove to be the case in the end.
- “It turned out to be a much better day than expected.”
- “Things didn't turn out the way we hoped.”
Similar: transpire, prove
- 2
To attend an event in numbers.
- “Thousands turned out for the parade.”
Similar: attend
- 3
To produce something in quantity.
- “The factory turns out four thousand units a day.”
Similar: produce, manufacture