Is

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 See also 2 Afrikaans 2.1 Verb 3 Dutch 3.1 Verb 4 Hungarian 4.1 Conjunction 5 Irish 5.1 Conjunction 5.2 Verb form 6 Latin 6.1 Verb 6.2 Personal pronoun 6.2.1 Declension 7 Norwegian 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Noun 8 Old English 8.1 Etymology 8.2 Pronunciation 8.3 Noun 9 Swedish 9.1 Etymology 9.2 Noun

English

Etymology

From Germanic *isti, cognate with German ist < Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- "to be". The paradigm of "to be" has been since the time of Proto-Germanic a synthesis of three originally distinct verb stems. The infinitive form "to be" is from Proto-Indo-European *bHeu- "to become". The words "is" and "are" are both derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- "to be". Lastly, the past forms starting with "w-" such as "was" and "were" are from Proto-Indo-European *wes- "to reside".

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ɪz/
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Verb

is

1. Third-person singular present tense (sometimes past tense and conditional tense) of to be.

   He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.

   Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.

Translations

Arabic: يكون (yukūn) Bulgarian: е Catalan: és, està Chinese: 是 (shì) Dutch: is Esperanto: estas Finnish: on French: est Frisian: is German: ist Greek: είναι (íne) Hindi: है (hai) Italian: è, sta Irish: tá Latin: est

Japanese: です (desu) Novial: es Persian: اَست (æst) Portuguese: é Polish: jest Romanian: este Russian: есть (has a very limited usage in Russian. One of the common errors of foreigners is using forms of to be in Russian sentences as they would in their native language.) Slovak: je Slovene: je Spanish: es, está Swedish: är Turkish: var Urdu: ہے (he) Vietnamese: là (when followed by a predicate nominative; not translated when followed by a predicate adjective)

See also

• am
• are
• be
• being
• been
• was
• wast
• were
• wert

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Afrikaans

Verb

is

1. am, are, is (present tense, all persons, plural and singular of wees, to be)

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Dutch

Verb

is

1. is (third-person singular present tense of zijn, to be)

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Hungarian

Conjunction

is

1. also; too

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Irish

Conjunction

is

1. and

Verb form

is

1. is

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Latin

Verb

is

1. (You) go, (thou) goest (second-person singular indicative of eo, ire, to go)

Personal pronoun

is m.; (f. ea, n. id, pl. ei)

1. he (third-person singular personal pronoun).

Declension

Irregular: similar to first and second declensions, except for singular genitives ending in "-ius" and singular datives ending in "-ī".

Number	Singular				Plural
Case \ Gender	M.	F.	N.		MM.	FF.	NN.
Nominative	is	ea	id		eī, iī	eae	ea
Genitive	eius	eius	eius		eōrum	eārum	eōrum
Dative	eī	eī	eī		eīs	eīs	eīs
Accusative	eum	eam	id		eōs	eās	ea
Ablative	eō	eā	eō		eīs	eīs	eīs

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Norwegian

Etymology

Old Norse íss.

Noun

Is m. (definite singular isen; uncountable)

1. ice

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Old English

Etymology

From Germanic *īsa-, from Indo-European *ei-, *ī- ‘ice, frost’. Cognate with Old Frisian īs, Old Saxon īs (Dutch ijs), Old High German īs (German Eis), Old Norse íss (Swedish is). There are parallels in many Iranian languages, apparently from the same IE root: Avestan aēxa- ‘frost, ice’, Persian یک yak ‘ice’, Pashtu جح jaḥ ‘ice’, Ossetic их ‘ice’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /i:s/

Noun

Ä«s n

1. ice

   ofer eastreamas is brycgade: the ice formed a bridge over the streams. (Legend of St Andrew)

2. the runic character ᛁ (/i/ or /i:/)

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Swedish

Etymology

Old Norse íss.

Noun

is c. (uncountable and countable)

1. (uncountable) ice; frozen water
2. (countable) ice; a sheet of ice lying on a body of waterda:is

de:is fr:is ko:is io:is it:is la:is hu:is nl:is ja:is no:is pl:is pt:is fi:is sv:is zh:is