be
verb
/bi/
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/biː/
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/bɪ/
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[bi(ː)]
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[biː]
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[bɪj]
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- (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
- (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
- 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.
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- To occupy a place.
- (now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- To occur, to take place.
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être
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- (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.]
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être,
avoir,
faire
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- Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
- (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
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avoir,
être
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- (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
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aller,
venir,
être
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- (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
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faire,
être
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being
noun
/ˈbiŋ/
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/ˈbiɪŋ/
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/ˈbiːŋ/
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/ˈbiːɪn(ɡ)/
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/ˈbiːɪŋ/
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être,
créature
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- The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
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être,
existence
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Bes
properNoun
/bɛs/
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- (Egyptian god) An ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth.
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Bès
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