🇬🇧 en pt 🇵🇹

be verb

  /bi/ , /biː/ , /bɪ/ , [bi(ː)] , [biː] , [bɪj]
  • (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.
  • To occur, to take place.
 ser, estar
  • (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.]
 ser, estar, ter, a, dar
  • (now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
 ser, existir, haver, estar
  • To occupy a place.
 estar, ser
  • (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
 estar, fazer, ser
  • (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
 estar, ter, ser
  • Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
 ser, ter, estar
  • (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
 ter, estar
  • Used to link a subject to a measurement.
 ter, ser

being noun

  /ˈbiŋ/ , /ˈbiɪŋ/ , /ˈbiːŋ/ , /ˈbiːɪn(ɡ)/ , /ˈbiːɪŋ/
  • A living creature.
 ser, criatura
  • The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
 existência
be able to
saber, poder, conseguir
there be
haver, ter
be silent
calar
be careful
cuidado, tome cuidado
be late
atrasar
be bored
entediar, estar entediado
be used to
costumar, estar acostumado com
be gone
acabar
be born
nascer

🇵🇹 pt en 🇬🇧

bê noun

bee

bé

baa
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