"y'are" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 122:",
          "text": "Of if ye ſhould, y’are never the nearer : For I’ll not own it to ye.",
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        "(obsolete) Contraction of ye are."
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          "ref": "2005 03, Ronan Scanlan, The Mayor of Castlebridge: An Irish Adaptation of a Thomas Hardy Classic, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 123:",
          "text": "\"Well I don't know what y'are bein' so gloomy about Jacob [for],\" insisted Hendrick. \"Neither of us had the means o' keepin' body and soul together for very long. Now there'll be an income at the cottage as will keep us both.\"",
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          "ref": "2024 June 4, Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 272:",
          "text": "\"Y'are a right chance taker today, eh? I've a mind to clean the washhouse, but I'm thinkin' I'd not like the filth in there, are ya hearin' me now, gal?\"",
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          "text": "[Dorothy:] I'm a little insulted we didn't get any sort of reaction from her. [Sal:] Yare bein' a little less gay than usual.",
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        "(rare, dialectal, colloquial) Contraction of you are."
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