there is

there is

English

Alternative forms

• (contraction) there’s

Pronunciation

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Verb

there is

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form 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 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) 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: Mandarin: 有 (zh) (yǒu) (singular and plural) Min Nan: 有 (zh-min-nan) (ǔ/ū) (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 (kk) (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 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 (diq)

Anagrams

• Ethiers, Hiester, heister, is there