ser — meaning in English

English meaning

• be verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
• being noun A living creature, especially in phrases like "human being."
• get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.

Senses

ser is used for these senses in English:

• be Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
• 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 Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• be To occupy a place.
• be (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
• be (now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
• being A living creature.

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.

being — full definition

1. noun A living creature, especially in phrases like "human being."
2. noun The state of existing; existence itself.
3. conjunction Given that; since (used to introduce a reason).

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