there

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   In or at that place, away from the speaker.

   They have lived there for many years.

2. 2
   adv

   To that place.

   I have never been to Paris, but I would love to go there.

3. 3
   adv

   In that matter or on that point.

   You think it is too expensive, and I agree with you there.

4. 4
   intj

   Used to comfort someone or to show that something is finished.

   There, there. Everything is going to be all right.

From Middle English there, ther, thare, thar, thore, from Old English þēr, þǣr, þār (“there; at that place”), from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“at that place; there”), from Proto-Indo-European *tó-r (“there”), from demonstrative pronominal base *to- (“the, that”) + adverbial suffix *-r. Cognate with Scots thar, thair (“there”), North Frisian dear, deer, där (“there”), Saterland Frisian deer (“there”), West Frisian dêr (“there”), Dutch daar (“there”), Low German dar (“there”), German da, dar- (“there”), Danish der (“there”), Norwegian der (“there”), Swedish där (“there”)…

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