there

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Adverb 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Interjection 1.5 Noun 1.6 Pronoun 1.7 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ðɛə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /DE@(\r)/
• (US) IPA: /ðɛɹ/, SAMPA: /DEr\/
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  Rhymes: -ɛə(r)

• Homophones: their, they're

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English ther < Old English þær < Proto-Germanic *þær < Proto-Indo-European *tar- (“‘there’”) < demonstrative pronominal base *to- (“‘the, that’”) + adverbial suffix *-r.

• Akin to Dutch daar, German da, Old High German dār, Swedish där, Danish der, Icelandic þar, and Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐍂 (thar), Sanskrit tarhi (“‘then’”), and English that. See that (pronoun).

[edit] Adverb

there (not comparable)

1. In or at that place or location.
   • (A date for this quote is being sought): William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, V-i:

     [They] there left me and my man, both bound together.

   • (A date for this quote is being sought): translation of Genesis 2:8:

     The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

   Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off, in such a manner, that here would include the person using the word, while there would not.

   • (A date for this quote is being sought): John Milton:

     Darkness there might well seem twilight here.

2. In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech.
   • (A date for this quote is being sought): William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, III-iii:

     The law that threaten’d death becomes thy friend / And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.

3. To or into that place; thither.
   • (A date for this quote is being sought): William Shakespeare, The Tempest, II-i:

     The rarest that e’er came there.

   Note: There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling attention to something, especially to something distant; as, There, there! See there! 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.

   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, prologue:

     A knight there was, and that a worthy man / […]

   • (A date for this quote is being sought): translation of Job 28:7:

     There is a path which no fowl knoweth.

   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter IX, paragraph 4:

     So that wherever there is sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced, and present in the understanding.

   • (A date for this quote is being sought): Suckling:

     There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue.

   Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See thereabout, thereafter, therefrom, etc.

4. (obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
   • (A date for this quote is being sought): Geoffrey Chaucer:

     Spend their good there it is reasonable.

5. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below.
   • 1928 January, Captain Ferdinand Tuohy, "Why Don't We Fly?", in Popular Science, page 144:

     These firms do not want the truth to get out and are financing these flights in the hope of dazzling the public. Yet the record of the gas engine is there for all to see.

[edit] Synonyms

• (to or into that place): thither

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[edit] Interjection

there

1. Used to show encouragement, sympathy, victory, or completion.

   There, there! Everything is going to turn out all right.

   There! That knot should hold.

[edit] Noun

there (plural theres)

1. That place.
   • 1937, Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography‎, page 289:

     anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

   • 1993, Edward S. Casey, Getting back into place: toward a renewed understanding of the place-world‎, page 54:

     Some of these theres are actual, that is, situated in currently ... Other theres are only virtual

2. That status; that position.

   You get it ready; I'll take it from there.

[edit] 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.]

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: eehrt
• ether, Ether
• Reeth
• three