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Definition of are
10 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(form-of, present, second-person, singular)second-person singular simple present of be
“Mary, where are you going?”
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verb
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(form-of, present, second-person, singular)second-person singular simple present of be
“Mary, where are you going?”
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(first-person, form-of, plural, present)first-person plural simple present of be
“We are not coming.”
“Here we are!”
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(form-of, plural, present, second-person)second-person plural simple present of be
“Mary and John, are you listening?”
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(form-of, plural, present, third-person)third-person plural simple present of be
“They are here somewhere.”
“BEloued, beleeue not euery ſpirit, but trie the ſpirits, whether they are of God: becauſe many falſe prophets are gone out into the woꝛld.”
- (East, Midlands, Yorkshire, form-of, present)present of be
noun
- (rare)An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of advance reader’s edition.
det
- (UK, US, alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of our.
name
- A village in Saaremaa, Saare County, Estonia.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Arab Republic of Egypt.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *arun? Old English earon Middle English aren English are From Middle English aren, from Old English (Anglian) earun, earon (“are”, plural). Possibly reinforced by the Old Norse…
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Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *arun? Old English earon Middle English aren English are From Middle English aren, from Old English (Anglian) earun, earon (“are”, plural). Possibly reinforced by the Old Norse plural forms in er-, this displaced the alternative forms Old English sind and bēoþ. In the second person singular it displaced archaic art. Further etymology controversial: * The English forms, as well as the Old Swedish forms in ær-, could reflect Proto-Germanic preterite-present *ōr ~ *arum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃e-h₃ór-h₂e (“I have risen”, perfect). * Since they are not the expected outcomes of the Proto-Germanic forms of *wesaną (“to be”) in *iz-, they would have to be irregular alterations. For Seebold this explanation is still preferable as similar variants in other verbs are not uncommon.
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