What is the meaning of Be?

ISO 639-1 language code for Belarusian.

As an auxiliary verb:

  1. Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.

    Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.

    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.

    As a copulative verb:

    1. To exist.

      To exist.

      Used to indicate that the subject and object are identical or equivalent.

      Used to indicate that the subject is an instance of the predicate nominal.

      Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective, 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, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.

      Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.

      To exist or behave in a certain way.

      As an intransitive lexical verb:

      1. To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.

        To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.

        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".

        Alternative form of by. Also found in compounds, especially oaths, e.g. begorra.

        The name of the Cyrillic script letter Б / б.

        oath

        vow, swearing

        Romanization of ᬩᬾ

        pig

        night

        at; with; by; near; (close) to

        red

        fire

        water

        Nonstandard spelling of .

        Nonstandard spelling of bê̄.

        Alternative form of been

        Alternative form of bee

        first-person singular present indicative of been

        singular present subjunctive of been

        singular imperative of been

        plural present of been

        path, way

        to pray

        to ask something of someone

        to pray

        to ask something of someone

        about (concerning)

        by, in various senses:

        1. near or next to
        2. not later than
        3. based on, according to

        near or next to

        not later than

        based on, according to

        for, in the account of

        second-person singular present subjunctive of is

        first/second-person singular future of is

        we (1pl nom)

        we; first-person plural personal pronoun

        water

        The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

        bad

        Romanization of 𒁁 (be)

        bean, beans

        to spread

        to bulge

        to spread out

        to lie down with one's limbs spread out (from tiredness or laziness)

        carp bream

        road, path, way

        water

        Alternative form of ba (to be)

        Alternative form of ba (is)

        Alternative form of ba (are)

        Alternative form of ba (been)

        Alternative form of bee (by)

        mouth

        bean

        The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

        The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

        sheep, ram, ewe, lamb; an individual of the species Ovis aries

        The characteristic cry of a sheep.

        The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

        in (towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room)

        The name of the Latin script letter B/b.

        The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

        Alternative form of bi

        The hiragana syllable (be) or the katakana syllable (be) in Hepburn romanization.

        The name of the letter B.

        without

        besides; but, except

        big; great

        many; numerous

        bee (the letter b)

        The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

        icky, yucky

        icky, yucky

        used with children to tell them not to touch something, bad! no touchy!

        used to imitate the sound of a sheep or ram, baa

        baa (sound made by sheep or goats)

        to be

        Alternative form of by

        The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

        baa (bleating of a sheep)

        to ask for, request someone else to do something

        to pray

        to beg, to plead with someone for help or for a favor

        the name of the Latin-script letter B/b, in the Abecedario

        The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.

        Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ب

        hey there, hey! you! (implying disapproval of the addressee’s actions)

        strengthening of the preceding sentence

        wine flask

        beige

        To build a mud embankment with one's hands.

        To prop up the lip of a sack while topping off the sack, to ensure a more generous quantity.

        To hug a boundary or riverbank.

        bleat; baa

        forms continuous tenses [with participial]

        Source: wiktionary.org