are

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   second-person singular simple present of be

   Mary, where are you going?

2. 2
   verb

   first-person plural simple present of be

   We are not coming.

3. 3
   verb

   second-person plural simple present of be

   Mary and John, are you listening?

4. 4
   verb

   third-person plural simple present of be

   They are here somewhere.

5. 5
   noun

   a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters

6. 6
   verb

   present of be

7. 7
   noun

   An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.

8. 8
   det

   Misspelling of our.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *arun? Old English earon Middle English aren English are From Middle English aren, from Old English (Anglian) earun, earon (“are”, plural). Possibly reinforced by the Old Norse plural forms in er-, this displaced the alternative forms Old English sind and bēoþ. In the second person singular it displaced archaic art. Further etymology controversial: * The English forms, as well as the Old Swedish forms in ær-, could reflect Proto-Germanic preterite-present *ōr ~ *arum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃e-h₃ór-h₂e (“I have risen”, perfect). * Since they are not the expect…