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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.
bli til, det å være, tilværelse

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me pronoun

  /mi/ , /miː/
  • (archaic, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
  • As the object of a preposition.
  • (colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
meg
  • (nonstandard, not with and) As the subject of a verb.
jeg
  • As the complement of the copula (be or is).
jeg, meg