είμαι — meaning in English
eimai
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English meaning
- be verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
Senses
είμαι is used for these senses in English:
- be (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
- be (rare, and, regional, chiefly, in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was. [from 15th c.]
- be To occur, to take place.
- be (now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- there be Of the specified thing: to exist, physically or abstractly.
be — full definition
- verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
- verb Used with another verb to form continuing or passive actions.