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are

verb
/ə(ɹ)//ɛə/UK/ɛəɹ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *arun? Old English earon Middle English aren English are From Middle English aren, from Old English (Anglian) earun, earon (“are”, plural). Possibly reinforced by the Old Norse plural forms in er-, this displaced the alternative forms Old English sind and bēoþ. In the second person singular it displaced archaic art. Further etymology controversial: * The English forms, as well as the Old Swedish forms in ær-, could reflect Proto-Germanic preterite-present *ōr ~ *arum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃e-h₃ór-h₂e (“I have risen”, perfect). * Since they are not the expected outcomes of the Proto-Germanic forms of *wesaną (“to be”) in *iz-, they would have to be irregular alterations. For Seebold this explanation is still preferable as similar variants in other verbs are not uncommon.

  1. inherited from *h₃er-✻ — “I have risen”
  2. inherited from earun
  3. inherited from aren

Definitions

  1. second-person singular simple present of be

    • Mary, where are you going?

  2. first-person plural simple present of be

    • We are not coming.
    • Here we are!

  3. second-person plural simple present of be

    • Mary and John, are you listening?
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. third-person plural simple present of be

      • They are here somewhere.
      • BEloued, beleeue not euery ſpirit, but trie the ſpirits, whether they are of God: becauſe many falſe prophets are gone out into the woꝛld.

    2. present of be

    3. An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square…

      An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.

    4. Misspelling of our.

    5. A village in Saaremaa, Saare County, Estonia.

    6. Initialism of advance reader’s edition.

    7. Initialism of Arab Republic of Egypt.

The neighborhood

  • synonymart
  • neighboramother forms of verb be
  • neighborartother forms of verb be
  • neighborbeother forms of verb be
  • neighborbeenother forms of verb be
  • neighborbeestother forms of verb be
  • neighborbeingother forms of verb be
  • neighborisother forms of verb be
  • neighborwasother forms of verb be
  • neighborwastother forms of verb be
  • neighborwereother forms of verb be
  • neighborwertother forms of verb be

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA