be
v//bi//bli, -s, vara, ha, hålla på att, vara lika med, finnas, existera, finnas till, vara till, ligga, sitta, stå, ske
(auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
(formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective or prepositional phrase.
Used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent.
(often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
(with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
Used to link a subject to a measurement.
(in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
(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.]
(now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
To occupy a place.
To occur, to take place.