there be
Anglais
Étymologie
Locution verbale
| Forme | Singulier | Plural | 
|---|---|---|
| Infinitif incomplet | there be | |
| Infinitif complet | there to be | |
| Présent | there is | there are | 
| Passé | there was | there were | 
| Présent accompli | there has been | there have been | 
| Passé accompli | there had been | |
| Participe présent | there being | |
there be \ðɛɹ bi\ (États-Unis), \ðɛə biː\ (Royaume-Uni)
- Y avoir.
- There can be only one. — (Highlander: The Series, 1992-1998)- Il ne peut y en avoir qu’un.
 
 
Notes
- Ce verbe se conjugue selon le temps et selon le nombre du premier syntagme nominal introduit.
- There are kids.
- There is a swing and a seesaw.
 
- La forme non conjuguée est rare.
- 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)
 
Références
- ↑ Leiv Egil Breivik et Toril Swan, The desemanticisation of existential there, dans Christiane Dalton-Puffer et al. éd., Words: Structure, Meaning, Function, Walter de Gruyter, 2000