12 Essential Phrasal verbs with COME

12 Essential Phrasal Verbs with COME (with Meanings & Examples)

If you want your English to sound natural and fluent, you simply can’t avoid phrasal verbs.

Native speakers don’t usually say “I rise at seven o’clock.” They say: “I get up at seven.”

That’s how real English works. And the verb COME is one of the most common verbs used to form phrasal verbs in everyday speech.

In this lesson, you will learn 12 essential phrasal verbs with COME that you’ll hear and use all the time — in conversations, films, books, and even in exams.

Let’s get started.

Come across

Meaning: to find something or meet someone by chance

• I came across some old photos while cleaning the house.
• We came across an old friend in the city centre.

Come along

Meaning: to arrive, appear, or go with someone

• Don’t worry — the bus will come along
• Why don’t you come along with us to the cinema?

Come around

Meaning: to become conscious again

• She fainted but came around a few minutes later.

(Also used to mean change your mind, but that’s for another lesson 😉)

Come back

Meaning: to return

• When I came back home, everyone had already left.
• The singer came back onto the stage for an encore.

Come by

Meaning: to get, obtain, or receive (often by chance)

• Good information is hard to come by.
• I came by this book at a second-hand shop.

Come down with

Meaning: to start being ill

• I think I’m coming down with a cold.
• She came down with the flu and stayed in bed for a week.

Come from

Meaning: to originate from

• He comes from a small village in Wales.
• This wine comes from

Come into

Meaning: to receive or acquire (especially money or property)

• She came into a lot of money after her aunt died.
• He came into possession of some old coins.

Come off

Meaning 1: to seem or appear in a particular way

• He comes off as very confident, but he’s actually shy.

Meaning 2: to fall off or become detached

The handle came off the door.

Come out

Meaning 1: to appear or be published

• Her new book is coming out next month.
• The sun came out after the rain.

Meaning 2: to say openly that you are gay

• He came out to his parents last year.

Come over

Meaning: to suddenly affect someone

• A strange feeling came over
• I don’t know what came over me — I just started laughing.

(Also commonly used to mean visit someone’s home: Come over for dinner!)

Come through

Meaning: to survive or recover from something difficult (especially an illness or crisis)

• She’s coming through after the operation.
• He came through the difficult period much stronger.

These phrasal verbs with COME are extremely common in everyday conversation, films and series, books and news and Cambridge exams. If you learn just these 12, your English will already sound more natural and more fluent.

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