into
ˈɪntuː
Why translating and crashing share a word
The picture Something outside steps over a threshold and settles inside. The moment of crossing is the part you can see. IN is already inside; INTO crosses the edge from outside and goes in.
Where the picture shows up in into
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over the threshold
Please come into the office.
pliːz kʌm ˈɪntuː ðiː ˈɔːfɪs
Step across the doorway and come inside the office.
A body crosses the doorsill and moves right into the room.
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driven in by impact
The truck ran into a wall.
ðə trʌk ræn ˈɪntuː ə wɔːl
The truck hit a wall and buried its nose in it.
The nose of the moving truck is buried inside the wall.
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through a mould, reshaped
Can you translate this into Korean?
kæn juː trænsˈleɪt ðɪs ˈɪntuː kəˈriːən
Can you take this and let it come back out in Korean?
An English sentence goes into a mould labelled 'Korean' and comes out in a different shape.
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digging inside to see
The police are looking into the case.
ðə pəˈliːs ɑːr ˈlʊkɪŋ ˈɪntuː ðə keɪs
The police are digging down inside the case to see what is there.
A torch beam pushes deep inside the lump called 'the case' and lights it up from within.
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split apart into slots
Cut the cake into eight pieces.
kʌt ðə keɪk ˈɪntuː eɪt ˈpiːsɪz
Cut the cake so that eight separate pieces come out of it.
A whole cake breaks apart and falls into eight separate slots.
All of it in one picture
INTO is an arrow crossing an edge inward. Cross a threshold and you get entering; drive through a wall and you get a crash. Go into another mould and come out reshaped, dig into a case and you get an investigation, split apart into several slots and you get dividing. Wherever INTO appears, there is an edge standing in front, waiting to be crossed.