"be there" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-be there.ogg [Australia] Forms: is there [present, singular, third-person], being there [participle, present], was there [past], been there [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|be<is,,was,been> there}} be there (third-person singular simple present is there, present participle being there, simple past was there, past participle been there)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be, there. Related terms: been there
    Sense id: en-be_there-en-verb-PLOx7ytI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54
  2. (idiomatic) To be available to provide comfort and support for someone, especially in a period of difficulty. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-be_there-en-verb-x8AwGzik Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (Translations): er zijn (Dutch), être là (French), da sein (German), være der for (Norwegian Bokmål), estar ahí (Spanish), ställa upp (Swedish), đồng hành (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'Translations': 0 100

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for be there meaning in English (3.0kB)

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