There

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English

Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg.
them	when	if	#52: there	more	out	into

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Pronunciation

AHD: thâr
IPA: /ðeə(r)/
SAMPA: /De@(r)/
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Homophones

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Etymology

Middle English ther < Old English þær < Proto-Germanic *þær < Proto-Indo-European *tar- ("there") < PIE demonstrative pronomial base *to- ("the", "that") + adverbial suffix -r.

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

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Adverb

there

In or at that place.
Quotations
- [They] there left me and my man, both bound together. — Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, V-i
- The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. — Genesis 2:8
Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off.
Quotations
- Darkness there might well seem twilight here. — Milton
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.
Quotations
- The law that threaten’d death becomes thy friend / And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. — Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, III-iii
To or into that place; thither.
Quotations
- The rarest that e’er came there. — Shakespeare, Tempest, II-i
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.
Quotations
- A knight there was, and that a worthy man. — Chaucer
- There is a path which no fowl knoweth. — Job 28:7
- Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced. — Locke
- There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue. — Suckling
Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See thereabout, thereafter, therefrom, etc.
Note: There was formerly used in the sense of where.
Quotations
- Spend their good there it is reasonable. — Chaucer