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be verb

  /bi/ , /biː/ , /bɪ/ , [bi(ː)] , [biː] , [bɪj]
  • Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
  • (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
  • Used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent.
  • Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
  • Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective or prepositional phrase.
  • (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
  • Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • To occupy a place.
  • To occur, to take place.
  • (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
 olla
  • (rare, and, regional, chiefly, in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was. [from 15th c.]
 olla, olla + third active infinitive in inessive case, olla ...[[-vuotias]], olla yhtä suuri kuin
  • (now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
 olla, olla olemassa
  • (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
 olla ...[[-vuotias]], olla
  • (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
 tulla, olla

being noun

  /ˈbiŋ/ , /ˈbiɪŋ/ , /ˈbiːŋ/ , /ˈbiːɪn(ɡ)/ , /ˈbiːɪŋ/
  • A living creature.
 olento
  • The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
 olemassaolo
there be
olla
be born
syntyä
be able to
osata, voida, pystyä, kyetä, saada
be silent
vaieta, olla hiljaa
let be
antaa olla, jättää rauhaan, lakata, olkoon
be called
olla nimeltään, kutsutaan, olla nimeltä
be good for
käydä, sopia
be ashamed
hävetä, olla häpeissään
be about
kertoa, käsitellä
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