there

there - English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (General Australian)
    • (stressed) IPA: /ðeː(ɹ)/
    • (unstressed) IPA: /ðə(ɹ)/
  • Homophones: their, they're

Adverb

there (not comparable)

  1. (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here).
  2. (figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
    • He did not stop there, but continued his speech.
    • They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there.
  3. (location) To or into that place; thither.
  4. (obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
  5. In this world, used to say that someone or something exists; see pronoun section below.

Usage notes

  • The use of there instead of they're (meaning they are) or their (possessive form of they) is a common homophonic error in English writing.
  • (to or into that place):
    • There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling attention to something, especially to something distant; such as in the phrases There, there!, See there and Look there!
    • There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject.
    • There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See thereabout, thereafter, therefrom, etc.

Synonyms

Translations

  • Albanian: andej (sq)
  • Arabic: إِلَى هُنَاكَ (ʔilā hunāka)
  • Armenian: այնտեղ (hy) (aynteł)
  • Assamese: তালৈ (taloi)
  • Asturian: allá (ast)
  • Bashkir: унда (unda)
  • Belarusian: туды́ (tudý)
  • Bulgarian: ната́м (natám), ната́тък (natátǎk)
  • Chinese:
  • Czech: tam (cs)
  • Danish: did, derhen
  • Dutch: daarheen (nl), aldaar (nl)
  • Esperanto: tien (eo)
  • Estonian: sinna (et)
  • Faroese: hagar
  • Finnish: (the place, which is pointed at, which is more distant or less accurately confined) tuonne (fi), (the place, which is pointed at, which is less distant or more accurately confined) tuohon (fi), (the place, which is not pointed at, which is more distant or less accurately confined) sinne (fi), (the place, which is not pointed at, which is less distant or more accurately confined) siihen (fi)
  • French: y (fr),  (fr)
  • German: dorthin (de), dahin (de)
  • Gothic: 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳 (jaind)
  • Greek: εκείσε (ekeíse), προς τα εκεί (pros ta ekeí)
  • Hebrew: לְ־שָׁם (le-shám)
  • Hindi: उधर (hi) (udhar)
  • Hungarian: oda (hu)
  • Icelandic: þangað (is)
  • Indonesian: (less distant) ke situ, (more distant) ke sana (id)
  • Irish: ansin
  • Italian: ci (it), vi (it)
  • Japanese: そこ (sokó e), あそこ (asokó e)
  • Korean: 거기에 (ko) (geogie)
  • Latin: illuc, istuc, eo (la)
  • Latvian: tur, turp
  • Ligurian: ghe
  • Lombard: ghe (lmo)
  • Luxembourgish: dohin
  • Macedonian: та́му (támu), на́таму (nátamu)
  • Malay: ke sana (ms), ke situ (ms) (a definite place)
  • Marathi: तिकडे (tikḍe)
  • Neapolitan: allà
  • Norwegian: dit (no)
  • Old English: þæder
  • Pashto: هلته (ps) (halta), هورې (hure)
  • Portuguese: para (towards the second-person), para ali (towards a nearby place), para (towards a faraway place)
  • Quechua: (please verify) jaqayman (-man = illative case)
  • Russian: туда́ (ru) (tudá)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
  • Shor: аара
  • Slovak: tam (sk), ta (sk)
  • Slovene: tjá
  • Spanish: por allí, hacia allá
  • Swedish: dit (sv) (as exclamation: där (sv))
  • Telugu: అక్కడికి (akkaḍiki)
  • Turkish: şuraya (less distant), oraya (tr) (more distant)
  • Ukrainian: туди́ (tudý)
  • Venetian: ghe (vec)
  • Vietnamese: đằng kia
  • Yoruba: síbẹ̀, ibẹ̀
  • Zealandic: d'r'ene, daer'ene

Interjection

there

  1. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy.
    • There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
  2. Used to express victory or completion.
    • There! That knot should hold.

Translations

  • Bulgarian: ето (bg) (eto)
  • Finnish: no niin
  • French:  (fr), voilà (fr)
  • Hungarian: így ni, úgy ni
  • Macedonian: еве (eve)
  • Maori: itaupa
  • Swedish: så där ja

Noun

there (plural theres)

  1. That place.
  2. That status; that position.
    • You rinse and de-string the green beans; I'll take it from there.

Translations

Pronoun

there

  1. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.
    • There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]
    • There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.]
    • Is there an answer? [=Does an answer exist?]
    • No, there isn't. [=No, one doesn't exist.]
  2. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.
    • If x is a positive number, then there exists [=there is] a positive number y less than x.
    • There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.]
    • Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there lived a woodsman with his wife. [=There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.]
    • There arose a great wind out of the east. [=There was now a great wind, arising in the east.]
  3. Used with other verbs, when raised.
    • There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. [=It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.]
    • I expected there to be a simpler solution. [=I expected that there would be a simpler solution.]
    • There are beginning to be complications. [=It's beginning to be the case that there are complications.]
    • There have to be two people at the post.
  4. (in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.
    • therefor, thereat, thereunder
  5. (colloquial) Appended to words of greeting etc.
    • Hi there, young fellow.
    • Oh, hello there, Bob, how are you doing?

Usage notes

  • In formal English, the verb agrees with the semantic subject: “there is a tree”, “there are some trees”, “there seems to be a mistake”, “there seem to be some mistakes”, and so on. This is because the "there [form of be]" construction originally used, and could still be said to use, "there" as simply an adverb modifying "to be". However, the syntax is archaic enough that "there" is rarely recognized as an adverb. In colloquial usage, therefore, the verb is often found in the third-person singular form, even when the semantic subject is plural — “there’s some trees”, “there seems to be some mistakes” — but this is often considered incorrect.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Danish: der (da)
  • Finnish: not used
  • French: il y a (fr)
  • Greek: Ancient: (third person of verb with no subject, often at beginning of phrase)
  • Icelandic: það (is)
  • Swedish: det (sv)

Contraction

there

  1. Misspelling of they’re.

Determiner

there

  1. Misspelling of their.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the adverb, interjection, noun, or pronoun there

Anagrams

there - Middle English

Determiner

there

  1. Alternative form of þeir
Meaning and Definition of there
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