Alternative forms

• (pronunciation spellings) dar, der, dere, thur, thar; dey
• (obsolete) thare

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (weak form) IPA^(key): /ðə(ɹ)/Category:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE
  • (strong form) IPA^(key): /ðɛə(ɹ)/, /ðɛː(ɹ)/Category:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE
• (US)
  • (weak form) IPA^(key): /ðɚ/Category:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE
  • (strong form) IPA^(key): /ðɛɚ/, /ðɛɹ/Category:English 2-syllable words#THERECategory:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE
• (General Australian)
  • (weak form) IPA^(key): /ðə(ɹ)/Category:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE
  • (strong form) IPA^(key): /ðeː/Category:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE
• (Canada)
  • (strong form) IPA^(key): [ðeːɹ]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE
• (Scotland)
  • (strong form) IPA^(key): /ðeɹ/Category:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger)
  • (strong form) IPA^(key): /ðiə/Category:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger)
  • (strong form) IPA^(key): /ðeə/Category:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger)
  • (strong form) IPA^(key): /ðɜː(ɹ)/Category:English 1-syllable words#THERECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THERE

• Audio (UK); [ðɛː]:

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#THERE

• Audio (US); [ðeɚ]:

  (file)

  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#THERE
• Homophones: their, they'reCategory:English terms with homophones#THERE
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɛə(ɹ)#THERECategory:Rhymes:English/ɛə(ɹ)/1 syllable#THERE

Adverb

there (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#THERECategory:English adverbs#THERECategory:English uncomparable adverbs#THERECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#THERECategory:Pages with entries#THERECategory:Pages with 4 entries#THERE

1. (location) In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).

   I know Bristol quite well as I used to live there.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   I looked in the cupboard and my keys were there!Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   The air there is beneficial to health.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   I consulted Wikipedia, and it says there that he died in 1970.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   The view up here is better than the view down there!Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   There's that book I've been looking for! (inverted use)Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     And in a dark and dankish vault at home / There left me and my man, both bound together;

     Category:English terms with quotations#THERE

   • 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Genesis, 2, viii,

     The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     To veil the heav'n, tho' darkneſs there might well / Seem twilight here.

     Category:English terms with quotations#THERE

   • 2004, George Carlin, “IS ANYONE THERE?”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 117:

     (Phone rings)
     MAN: Hello. Philosophy Department.
     CALLER: Is Jack there?
     MAN: Well, what do we mean when we say, "Jack"? Is there really such an entity? Or is Jack simply a description? A label. There are countless people who call themselves Jack. Can they all be doing so accurately? And by the way, where is this "there" you speak of? As I listen to you, I experience your voice as a physical sensation within my head. Certainly Jack isn't in there. Wherever your entity called Jack is, it's probably safe to say that that is where he is. At least for the moment.

     Category:English terms with quotations#THERE

   1. (figuratively) At that point, stage, etc., visualised as a distinct place.

      He did not stop there, but continued his speech.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

      They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

      • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

        The law, that threaten’d death, becomes thy friend / And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.

        Category:English terms with quotations#THERE

   2. (as complement of 'be') In a notional place where one will provide support or care; see also be there.

      You know that I will always be there for you.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   3. (as complement of 'be') In existence in some place.

      I know that aliens are there, somewhere.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   4. (informalCategory:English informal terms#THERE, as complement of 'be') In its correct position, so as to be fully and properly fitted or inserted.

      If I just push this in here like this, it should .... Ah! Good! It's there!Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   5. (informalCategory:English informal terms#THERE) After the name of a person perceived as located 'away' from the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.

      Jim there has been with the company for twenty years.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   6. (dialectCategory:English dialectal terms#THERE) After certain determiners, especially 'them', 'that' and 'those', used to emphasise demonstrative sense; see also them there.

      Your dog's been a-chasin' those there chickens.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   7. (informalCategory:English informal terms#THERE, as complement of 'be') In a notional place or situation of mental soundness and competence; see also all there.

      I spoke to her, but she didn't make much sense. I don't think she's totally there.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

2. (location) To or into a place or location; thither.

   I've never been to Disneyland. Can we go there?Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     A knight there was, and that a worthy man / […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     Category:Middle English terms with quotations#THERECategory:Requests for translations of Middle English quotations#THERE

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     And the rarest that e’er came there.

     Category:English terms with quotations#THERE

   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter IX, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:

     So that wherever there is sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced, and present in the understanding.

     Category:English terms with quotations#THERE

   • 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Job, 28, vii,

     There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

   1. Into an undesirable topic or subject matter; see also go there.

      He started to talk about ... you know ... and I told him please don't go there.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

3. (figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc..

   You say that the president is a crook, and I certainly agree with you there.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

4. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#THERE) Where, there where, in which place.
5. In this world: used to say that someone or something exists; see also pronoun section below.
   • 1928 January, Captain Ferdinand Tuohy, “Why Don't We Fly?”, in Popular Science, page 144:

     These firms do not want the truth to get out and are financing these flights in the hope of dazzling the public. Yet the record of the gas engine is there for all to see.

     Category:English terms with quotations#THERE

Interjection

thereCategory:English lemmas#THERECategory:English interjections#THERECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#THERECategory:Pages with entries#THERECategory:Pages with 4 entries#THERE

1. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy; see also there, there and there now.

   There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

2. Used to express victory or completion.

   There! That knot should hold.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

Noun

there (plural theres)Category:English lemmas#THERECategory:English nouns#THERECategory:English countable nouns#THERECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#THERECategory:Pages with entries#THERECategory:Pages with 4 entries#THERE

1. That place (previously mentioned or otherwise implied).

   We need someone to take us from here to there.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   • 1937, Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, page 289:

     anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

     Category:English terms with quotations#THERE

   • 1993, Edward S. Casey, Getting back into place: toward a renewed understanding of the place-world, page 54:

     Some of these theres are actual, that is, situated in currently ... Other theres are only virtual

     Category:English terms with quotations#THERE

2. That situation; that position.

   You rinse and de-string the green beans; I'll take it from there.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

Pronoun

thereCategory:English lemmas#THERECategory:English pronouns#THERECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#THERECategory:Pages with entries#THERECategory:Pages with 4 entries#THERE

1. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.

   There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]

   There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.]

   Is there an answer? [=Does an answer exist?]

   No, there isn't. [=No, one doesn't exist.]

   • 1908, C. H. Bovill (lyrics), Jerome D. Kern (music), There’s Something Rather Odd About Augustus, song from the musical Fluffy Ruffles,

     It's very sad but all the same, / There’s something rather odd about Augustus.

   • 1909, Leo Tolstoy, translator not mentioned, There are No Guilty People, in The Forged Coupon and Other Stories,

     There was a time when I tried to change my position, which was not in harmony with my conscience; […] .

   • 1918, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, Notes from Underground, Part 1, II:

     There are intentional and unintentional towns.

     Category:English terms with quotations#THERE

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2. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.

   If x is a positive number, then there exists [=there is] a positive number y less than x.

   There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.]

   Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there lived a woodsman with his wife. [=There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.]

   There arose a great wind out of the east. [=There was now a great wind, arising in the east.]

   • 1895, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes: Nursery Songs, XXII: The Tree in the Wood,

     All in a wood there grew a fine tree,

   • 1897, James Baldwin, The Story of Abraham Lincoln: The Kentucky Home, in Four Great Americans,

     Not far from Hodgensville, in Kentucky, there once lived a man whose name was Thomas Lincoln.

   • 1904, Uriel Waldo Cutler, Stories of King Arthur and His Knights, Chapter XXXI: How Sir Launcelot Found the Holy Grail,

     On a night, as he slept, there came a vision unto him, and a voice said, "Launcelot, arise up, and take thine armour, and enter into the first ship that thou shalt find."

3. Used with other verbs, when raised.

   There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. [=It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.]

   I expected there to be a simpler solution. [=I expected that there would be a simpler solution.]

   There are beginning to be complications. [=It's beginning to be the case that there are complications.]

   There aren't supposed to be two people at the post.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

4. (in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.

   therefor, thereat, thereunder

5. (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#THERE) Appended to words of greeting etc.

   Hi there, young fellow.Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   Oh, hello there, Bob, how are you doing?Category:English terms with usage examples#THERE

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Hi there! I’m Anna and I live in Washington, D.C.

Derived terms

See also

Contraction

thereCategory:English non-lemma forms#THERECategory:English contractions#THERECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#THERECategory:Pages with entries#THERECategory:Pages with 4 entries#THERE

1. Misspelling of they’reCategory:English misspellings#THERE.

Determiner

thereCategory:English lemmas#THERECategory:English determiners#THERECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#THERECategory:Pages with entries#THERECategory:Pages with 4 entries#THERE

1. Misspelling of theirCategory:English misspellings#THERE.