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stand verb

  /stænd/ , [steənd]
  • (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
 stå
  • (intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
  • (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
 stå, bli stående
  • (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
 tåle, motstå
  • (intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
 reise opp
  • (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
 reise seg, stå opp

standing noun

  /ˈstændɪŋ/
  • (figurative) Position or reputation in society or a profession.
 omdømme
  • (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
 plass

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be verb

  /bi/ , /biː/
  • (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • (now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
  • As an intransitive lexical verb:
  • 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".
 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.
 bli til, det å være, tilværelse

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else adjective

  /ɛls/ , /ɛlts/
  • (postpositive, used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
 en anden

else adverb

  /ɛls/ , /ɛlts/
  • (usually follows interrogative adverbs) Otherwise, if not.
 ellers

else conjunction

  /ɛls/ , /ɛlts/
  • For otherwise; or else.
 ellers