"there be" meaning in Anglais

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Verb

IPA: \ðɛɹ bi\, \ðɛə biː\
  1. Y avoir.
    Sense id: fr-there_be-en-verb-HgvU8dJO Categories (other): Exemples en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en vieil anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
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  "etymology_texts": [
    "Utilisation de l’explétif there issu du vieil anglais þær dans l’ordre V2 pour placer une nouvelle information après le verbe."
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "notes": [
    "Ce verbe se conjugue selon le temps et selon le nombre du premier syntagme nominal introduit.\n:* There are kids.\n:* There is a swing and a seesaw.",
    "La forme non conjuguée est rare.\n:* Russell, in his theory of so-called singular descriptions, showed clearly how we might meaningfully use seeming names without supposing that there be the entities allegedly named. — (Willard Van Orman Quine, On What There Is, 1948)"
  ],
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Locution verbale",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Highlander: The Series, 1992-1998",
          "text": "There can be only one.",
          "translation": "Il ne peut y en avoir qu’un."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Y avoir."
      ],
      "id": "fr-there_be-en-verb-HgvU8dJO"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ðɛɹ bi\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ðɛə biː\\",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Royaume-Uni"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "there be"
}
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    "anglais"
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    "Utilisation de l’explétif there issu du vieil anglais þær dans l’ordre V2 pour placer une nouvelle information après le verbe."
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "notes": [
    "Ce verbe se conjugue selon le temps et selon le nombre du premier syntagme nominal introduit.\n:* There are kids.\n:* There is a swing and a seesaw.",
    "La forme non conjuguée est rare.\n:* Russell, in his theory of so-called singular descriptions, showed clearly how we might meaningfully use seeming names without supposing that there be the entities allegedly named. — (Willard Van Orman Quine, On What There Is, 1948)"
  ],
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      "categories": [
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          "ref": "Highlander: The Series, 1992-1998",
          "text": "There can be only one.",
          "translation": "Il ne peut y en avoir qu’un."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Y avoir."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "\\ðɛɹ bi\\",
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        "États-Unis"
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      "ipa": "\\ðɛə biː\\",
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      ]
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  ],
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