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be verb

  /bi/ , /biː/
  • (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
  • (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
  • Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
  • (rare, and, regional, chiefly, in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was. [from 15th c.]
  • Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
  • Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • To occupy a place.
  • To occur, to take place.
  • (now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
  • As an intransitive lexical verb:
  • (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
 være

being noun

  /ˈbiŋ/ , /ˈbiɪŋ/ , /ˈbiːŋ/ , /ˈbiːɪŋ/
  • A living creature.
 vesen
  • The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
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-ly suffix

  /li/ , [li] , [liː] , [lɪ] , [ɫiː]
  • Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "appearing like, resembling, or having the likeness of what is denoted by the noun".
 -lig

-ly suffix

  /li/ , [li] , [liː] , [lɪ] , [ɫiː]
  • Used to form adverbs from adjectives and nouns.
 -lig

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-ing suffix

  /in/ , /iŋ/ , /ən/ , /ɪn/ , /ɪŋ/ , /ɪŋk/ , /ɪŋɡ/
  • Used to form present participles of verbs.
 -ende

-ing suffix

  /in/ , /iŋ/ , /ən/ , /ɪn/ , /ɪŋ/ , /ɪŋk/ , /ɪŋɡ/
  • Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.
 -ing