Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.auxiliary
Used with present participles of verbs to form the continuous aspect.
Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.Caribbean, Ireland, auxiliary
As a copulative verb:
To exist.with dummy subject
Used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent.
Used to indicate that a predicate nominal applies to the subject.
Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective or prepositional phrase.
Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
Used to link a subject to a measurement.
Used to state the age of a subject in years.
Used to indicate the time of day.
Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
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.past, rare, regional
To pass or spend (time).
To take a period of time.
Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.impersonal, often
To exist or behave in a certain way.especially, irregular
As an intransitive lexical verb:
To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.literary, usually
To remain undisturbed in a certain state or situation.
To occupy a place.
To occur, to take place.
Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
Lingaku