are

See also: Are, -are, -aré, åre, aré, arë, āre, and ārē

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English aren, from Old English earun, earon (“are”), reinforced by Old Norse plural forms in er- (displacing alternative Old English sind and bēoþ), from Proto-Germanic *arun (“(they) are”), from Proto-Germanic *esi/*izi (a form of Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“is”). Cognate with Old Norse eru (“(they) are”) (> Icelandic eru (“(they) are”), Swedish är (“(they) are”), Danish er (“(they) are”)), Old English eart (“(thou) art”). More at art.

Alternative forms

• ar (obsolete)

Pronunciation

Stressed

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: är, IPA^(key): /ɑː(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: ar, IPA^(key): /ɑɹ/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) enPR: är, IPA^(key): /ɐː(ɹ)/
• (now dialectal) IPA^(key): /ɛə(ɹ)/, /ɛː(ɹ)/
• (proscribed, rare, due to confusion with "our") IPA^(key): /aʊɚ/, /aʊə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Homophones: argh, r

Unstressed

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ə(ɹ)/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɘ(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: är, IPA^(key): /ɚ/

Verb

are

1. second-person singular simple present of be

   Mary, where are you going?

2. first-person plural simple present of be

   We are not coming.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Here we are!

     Audio (US)

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3. second-person plural simple present of be

   Mary and John, are you listening?

4. third-person plural simple present of be

   They are here somewhere.

5. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be

Synonyms

• (second-person singular): (archaic) art (used with thou)

Usage notes

• The pronunciation /aʊɚ/ arising from confusion of "are" and "our" is rare, however it results as the latter can be elided into /ɑɹ/ in quick speech.

Translations

second-person singular (informal) simple present indicative form of be

• Bulgarian: си (bg) (si)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 是 (zh) (shì) (not used with adjectives)

• Czech: jsi (cs), jste (cs) (formal)
• Danish: er (da)
• Dutch: bent (nl), zijt (nl)
• Faroese: ert
• Finnish: olet (fi)
• French: es (fr), êtes (fr) (formal)
• Galician: es (gl)
• German: bist (de), sind (de) (formal, singular or plural)
• Hungarian: vagy (hu), van (hu)

• Japanese: です (ja) (desu) (formal), だ (ja) (da) (informal), である (ja) (dearu) (informative)
• Latin: es (la)
• Lithuanian: esi (lt)
• Macedonian: си (si)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: er (no)

• Polish: jesteś, je (pl) (formal, with Pan, Pani)
• Portuguese: estás (pt) (with tu), está (pt) (with você), és (pt) (with tu), é (pt) (with você)
• Russian: есть (ru) (jestʹ) (seldom used), еси́ (ru) (jesí) (archaic)
• Slovak: si, ste
• Spanish: eres (es), estás (es)
• Swedish: är (sv)
• Vietnamese: là (vi)

second-person plural simple present indicative form of be

• Bulgarian: сте (bg) (ste)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 是 (zh) (shì) (not used with adjectives)

• Czech: jste (cs)
• Danish: er (da)
• Dutch: zijn (nl)
• Faroese: eru
• Finnish: olette (fi)
• French: êtes (fr)
• German: seid (de), sind (de) (formal, singular or plural)
• Hungarian: vagytok (hu), vannak (hu)
• Japanese: です (ja) (desu) (formal), だ (ja) (da) (informal), である (ja) (dearu) (informative)
• Korean: 이다 (ko) (ida)

• Latin: estis (la)
• Lithuanian: esate (lt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: er (no)

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: есте (este), еста (esta) (dual)

• Polish: jesteście, są (pl) (formal with Państwo, Panowie, etc.)
• Portuguese: estais (pt) (with vós), estão (pt) (with vocês), sois (pt) (with vós), são (pt) (with vocês)
• Russian: есть (ru) (jestʹ) (seldom used), е́сте (ru) (jéste) (archaic)
• Slovak: ste
• Spanish: sois (es), son (es), estáis (es), están (es)
• Swedish: är (sv)
• Vietnamese: là (vi)

first-person plural simple present indicative form of be

• Bulgarian: сме (bg) (sme)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 是 (zh) (shì) (not used with adjectives)

• Czech: jsme (cs)
• Danish: er (da)
• Dutch: zijn (nl)
• Faroese: eru
• Finnish: olemme (fi)
• French: sommes (fr)
• German: sind (de)
• Hungarian: vagyunk (hu)
• Japanese: です (ja) (desu) (formal), だ (ja) (da) (informal), である (ja) (dearu) (informative)
• Korean: 이다 (ko) (ida)

• Latin: sumus (la)
• Lithuanian: esame (lt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: er (no)

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: есмъ (esmŭ), есвѣ (esvě) (dual)

• Polish: jesteśmy
• Portuguese: estamos (pt), somos (pt)
• Russian: есть (ru) (jestʹ) (seldom used), есмы́ (ru) (jesmý) (archaic)
• Slovak: sme
• Spanish: somos (es), estamos (es)
• Swedish: är (sv)
• Vietnamese: là (vi)

third-person plural simple present indicative form of be

• Bulgarian: са (bg) (sa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 是 (zh) (shì) (not used with adjectives)

• Czech: jsou (cs)
• Danish: er (da)
• Faroese: eru
• Finnish: ovat (fi)
• French: sont (fr)
• German: sind (de)
• Hungarian: vannak (hu)
• Japanese: です (ja) (desu) (formal), だ (ja) (da) (informal), である (ja) (dearu) (informative)
• Korean: 이다 (ko) (ida)
• Latin: sunt (la)

• Lithuanian: yra (lt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: er (no)

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: сѫтъ (sǫtŭ), есте (este) (dual)

• Old English: sind
• Polish: są (pl)
• Portuguese: estão (pt), são (pt)
• Russian: есть (ru) (jestʹ) (seldom used), суть (ru) (sutʹ) (dated)
• Slovak: sú
• Spanish: son (es), están (es)
• Swedish: är (sv)
• Vietnamese: là (vi)

be — see be

See also

other forms of verb be

• am
• art
• be
• been
• beest
• being
• is
• was
• wast
• were
• wert

 

Etymology 2

From French are.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛə/, /ɛː/
• (General American) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /ɛəɹ/, /ɛɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: air, ere, heir; err (one pronunciation)

Noun

are (plural ares)

1. (rare) An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.

Usage notes

• Are is now rarely used except in its derivative hectare.

Synonyms

• (SI unit): (rare) square decametre

Derived terms

• centiare
• decare
• hectare

 

Translations

unit of area

• Armenian: ար (hy) (ar)
• Bashkir: ар (ar); land area сутый (sutïy)
• Catalan: àrea (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公畝 (zh), 公亩 (zh) (gōngmǔ)

• Czech: ar (cs) m
• Danish: ar (da)
• Dutch: are (nl) m
• Estonian: aar (et)
• Finnish: aari (fi)
• French: are (fr) m
• Galician: área (gl) f
• German: Ar (de) n
• Greek: άρια (el) n (ária)
• Hungarian: ár (hu)
• Irish: ár m
• Italian: ara (it) f

• Japanese: アール (ja) (āru)
• Latvian: ārs m
• Macedonian: ар m (ar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ar (no) n

  Nynorsk: ar n

• Occitan: ara (oc) f
• Polish: ar (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: are (pt) m
• Romanian: ar (ro) n
• Russian: ар (ru) m (ar)
• Slovak: ár m
• Spanish: área (es) f
• Swedish: ar (sv) c
• Tagalog: arya
• Turkish: ar (tr)

Further reading

Are on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'ear, Aer, EAR, ERA, REA, Rae, Rea, aer-, aër-, ear, era, rea

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Basque

Noun

are

1. rake

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French are, from Latin ārea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.rə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: are
• Rhymes: -aːrə

Noun

are f (plural aren or ares)

1. are, a unit of surface area

Derived terms

• hectare

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French

Etymology

Learned formation from Latin area, a piece of level ground. Doublet of aire.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: art

Noun

are m (plural ares)

1. an are

Related terms

• aire
• aréage

 

Further reading

• “are” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.re/, [ˈäːr̺e̞]
• Rhymes: -are
• Homophone: -are (to) (infinitive verb suffix)
• Hyphenation: à‧re

Etymology 1

Variant of aere.

Noun

are m (plural ari)

1. Archaic form of aere.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

are f pl

1. plural of ara

Anagrams

• era, Era, rea

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Japanese

Romanization

are

1. Rōmaji transcription of あれ

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Latin

Verb

ārē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of āreō

References

• are in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Lindu

Noun

are

1. long, large sickle

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Mapudungun

Noun

are (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. warmth, heat

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English heora.

Determiner

are

1. (chiefly West Midland and Kentish dialectal) Alternative form of here (“their”)

References

• “her(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

Etymology 2

From Old English hara.

Noun

are

1. Alternative form of hare

Etymology 3

From Old English earon.

Verb

are

1. Alternative form of aren

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Norwegian

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

are

1. white-tailed eagle

Etymology 2

Perhaps from a Dutch Low Saxon [Term?] or German Low German [Term?] verb.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

are

1. to suit, fit

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːre/

Noun 1

āre

1. honor, glory, grace

Declension

Declension of are (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	āre	āran
accusative	āran	āran
genitive	āran	ārena
dative	āran	ārum

Noun 2

āre

1. dative singular of ār (“messenger, herald; angel; missionary”)

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Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

are n

1. ear

Inflection

Declension of āre (neuter n-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	āre	āra, ārene, ārne
accusative	āre	āra, ārene, ārne
genitive	āra	ārena
dative	āra	ārum, ārem, ārnum, ārnem

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr: uar

  Hallig, Mooring: uur

  Helgoland: Uaar

• Saterland Frisian: Oor
• West Frisian: ear

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀅𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• अरे (Devanagari script)
• অরে (Bengali script)
• අරෙ (Sinhalese script)
• အရေ (Burmese script)
• อเร or อะเร (Thai script)
• ᩋᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ອເຣ or ອະເຣ (Lao script)
• អរេ (Khmer script)

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

are

1. wow, woah
2. yay

Derived terms

• re

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

are m (plural ares)

1. (historical) are (unit of area)

Etymology 2

Verb

are

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of arar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of arar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of arar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of arar

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Romanian

Etymology

Cf. Latin habēret, habuerit. Compare Aromanian ari. See also Romanian ar, used in a periphrastic construction of the conditional.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈare/
• Rhymes: -are

Verb

are

1. third-person singular present indicative of avea

See also

• a

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Scots

Etymology

From Middle English are, from Old English ār (“honor, worth, dignity, glory, respect, reverence, grace, favor, prosperity, benefit, help, mercy, pity, privilege”), from Proto-Germanic *aizō (“respect, honour”), from *ais- (“to honour, respect, revere”). Cognate with Dutch eer (“honour, credit”), German Ehre (“honour, glory”), Latin erus (“master, professor”).

Noun

are (uncountable)

1. grace; mercy

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾe/

Verb

are

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of arar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of arar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of arar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of arar.

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Tagalog

Pronoun

are

1. (Batangas) this, it

   Ano ga are? ― What is this?

Synonyms

• (Manila, Standard Tagalog) ito
• (Central Luzon) ere, ire

Derived terms

• garine, ganire
• nare

 

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Venetian

Noun

are

1. plural of ara