there is

English

Alternative forms

• (contraction) there’s

Pronunciation

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Verb

there is

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of there be. Used to indicate the existence of something physical or abstract. See also there are.

   There is a man here to see you.

   There is a flaw in your argument.

   • 1993 November 27, Gene Roddenberry et al., “Parallels”, Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episode 11, Paramount Pictures:

     Data: For any event, there is an infinite number of possible outcomes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow.

Usage notes

• When introducing more than one noun phrase, the verb often agrees with the number of the first noun phrase.

  There is a swing and a seesaw for kids.

Translations

third-person singular simple present indicative form of there be

• Albanian: ka (sq), është (sq)
• Arabic: (singular and plural) هُنَاكَ (hunāka), يُوجَدُ (yūjadu)

  Algerian Arabic: كاين (kāyin)

  Egyptian Arabic: فيه (fī)

  Gulf Arabic: فيه (fī), في (fi)

  Hijazi Arabic: فيه (fī)

  Iraqi Arabic: أكو (aku)

  Lebanese Arabic: فيه (fī)

  Moroccan Arabic: كاين m (kāyin), كاينة f (kāyna), كاينين pl (kāynīn)

  South Levantine Arabic: فيه (fī), في (fi)

  Tunisian Arabic: فما (famma)

  Yemeni Arabic: به (beh) (San'ani)

• Aragonese: i hai, bi ha
• Armenian: կա (hy) (ka)
• Asturian: hai (ast)
• Azerbaijani: var (az)
• Balinese: ada
• Belarusian: ёсць (joscʹ) (singular and plural)
• Bengali: আছে (ache)
• Bikol Central: igwa (bcl)
• Bulgarian: и́ма (bg) (íma)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: hi ha (singular and plural)
• Cebuano: naa
• Cherokee: ᎾᏂᎠ (nania) (three or more)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 有 (jau⁵) (singular and plural)

  Hokkien: 有 (zh-min-nan) (ū, ǔ) (singular and plural)

  Mandarin: 有 (zh) (yǒu) (singular and plural)

• Crimean Tatar: bar
• Czech: je (cs), existuje (cs)
• Danish: der findes (singular and plural), der er
• Dolgan: баар (baar)
• Dutch: er is, (plural) er zijn
• Esperanto: estas (eo)
• Estonian: on (et)
• Finnish: -ssa on, -lla on, on (fi)
• French: il y a (singular and plural)
• Galician: hai (gl)
• Garo: donga
• Georgian: არის (aris), აქვს (akvs)
• German: es gibt
• Greek: υπάρχει (ypárchei)

  Ancient Greek: ὑπάρχει (hupárkhei)

• Hebrew: יֵשׁ (he) (yesh) (singular and plural)
• Hindi: (singular) ... है (hi) (... hai), (plural) ... हैं (hi) (... ha͠i)
• Hungarian: van (hu), vannak (hu) pl (as a leading element of a sentence)
• Icelandic: það er (singular), það eru (plural)
• Ilocano: adda
• Indonesian: ada (id)
• Irish: tá ... ann
• Italian: c'è, (plural) ci sono (it)
• Japanese: いる (ja) (iru) (animate), ある (ja) (aru) (inanimate)
• Kapampangan: atin
• Kazakh: бар (bar)
• Khakas: пар (par)
• Khmer: មាន (km) (mien)
• Korean: 있다 (ko) (itda) (singular and plural)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: heye (ku)

• Kyrgyz: бар (ky) (bar)
• Lao: ມີ (mī) (singular and plural)
• Latin: est (la), (plural) sunt (la), exsistet, exsistent pl
• Latvian: ir (lv)
• Lithuanian: yra (lt)
• Macedonian: и́ма (íma)
• Malay: ada (ms)
• Maltese: hemm...
• Manchu: ᠪᡳ (bi), ᠪᡳᠮᠪᡳ (bimbi), ᠪᡳᠰᡳᡵᡝ (bisire)
• Mongolian: байна (mn) (bajna)
• Mwali Comorian: ngopvo
• Navajo: hólǫ́
• Ndzwani Comorian: vwa
• Ngazidja Comorian: ngapvo
• Northern Kankanay: wada
• Norwegian: (plural and singular) det er
• Occitan: i a
• Old English: is, þǣr is
• Pangasinan: wala
• Persian: هست (fa) (hast), وجود دارد (vojud dârad)
• Polish: jest (pl), (plural) są (pl), (negative) nie ma (pl)
• Portuguese: há (singular and plural), existe (pt), tem (pt)
• Romanian: este (ro), sunt (ro) pl
• Romansch: i dat
• Russian: есть (ru) (jestʹ) (singular and plural), име́ется (ru) (iméjetsja) (singular), име́ются (ru) (iméjutsja) (plural)
• Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: tha
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: има

  Roman: ima

• Sicilian: c'è (scn), ci sunnu (scn) pl
• Slovak: je (sk)
• Slovene: je (sl)
• Spanish: hay (es) (singular and plural)
• Swahili: pana (sw)
• Swedish: det finns (singular and plural)
• Tagalog: may (tl), mayroon (tl), meron (tl)
• Tajik: ҳаст (tg) (hast)
• Tatar: бар (bar)
• Thai: มี (th) (mii) (singular and plural)
• Turkish: var (singular and plural)
• Turkmen: bar (tk)
• Tuvan: бар (bar)
• Ukrainian: є (uk) (je) (singular and plural)
• Uzbek: bor (uz)
• Vietnamese: có (vi) (singular and plural)
• Welsh: mae (cy)
• Yakut: баар (baar)
• Yiddish: איז דאָ (iz do)
• Zazaki: est

Anagrams

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