sum — meaning in English

English meaning

• be verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
• exist verb To be real; to have actual being.
• get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
• have verb To own or possess something.

Senses

sum is used for these senses in English:

• be Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
• be To occupy a place.
• exist (intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality
• get (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
• have (transitive) To possess, own.
• there be Of the specified thing: to exist, physically or abstractly.

be — full definition

1. verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
2. verb Used with another verb to form continuing or passive actions.

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