there

pronunciation

How to pronounce there in British English: UK [ðeə(r)]word uk audio image

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  • Noun:
    a location other than here; that place
  • Adverb:
    in or at that place
    in that matter
    to or toward that place; away from the speaker

Word Origin

there
there: [OE] There was formed in prehistoric Germanic from the demonstrative base *tha- (which also underlies English that and then) and the suffix -r used in making adverbs of place (it occurs also in English here and where). Its Germanic relatives include German da, Dutch daar, and Swedish and Danish der.=> here, the, then, where
there (adv., conj.)
Old English þær "in or at that place, so far as, provided that, in that respect," from Proto-Germanic *thær (cognates: Old Saxon thar, Old Frisian ther, Middle Low German dar, Middle Dutch daer, Dutch daar, Old High German dar, German da, Gothic þar, Old Norse þar), from PIE *tar- "there" (cognates: Sanskrit tar-hi "then"), from root *to- (see the) + adverbial suffix -r. Interjectional use is recorded from 1530s, used variously to emphasize certainty, encouragement, or consolation. To have been there "had previous experience of some activity" is recorded from 1877.

Antonym

adv.

here

Example

1. But the evidence is there .
2. His wife worked there too .
3. Unaware that I was there .
4. Are you comfortable being there ?
5. Why should I go there ?

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