Is

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Verb 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 See also 2 Dutch 2.1 Verb 3 Latin 3.1 Verb 3.2 Personal pronoun 3.2.1 Declension 4 Swedish 4.1 Noun

English

Etymology

Germanic origin, cognate with German ist. Not etymologically related to the word be.

Verb

is

1. Third-person singular present tense (sometimes past tense and conditional tense) of to be.

   He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.

   Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.

Translations

• Bulgarian: е
• Catalan: és , sigui , estàs , estès
• Chinese: 是 (shì)
• Dutch: is
• Esperanto: estas
• Finnish: on
• French: est
• Frisian: is
• German: ist
• Greek: είναι
• Hindi: है (hai)
• Italian: è , sta
• Irish: tá
• Latin: est
• Persian: اَست (æst)
• Polish: jest
• Romanian: este
• Russian: есть

  je

• Spanish: es, está
• Swedish: är
• Turkish: var
• Urdu: ہے (he)
• Vietnamese: là (when followed by a predicate nominative; not translated when followed by a predicate adjective)

See also

• am
• are
• be
• being
• been
• was
• wast
• were
• wert

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Dutch

Verb

is

1. is (third-person singular present tense of zijn, to be)

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Latin

Verb

is

1. (You) go, (thou) goest (second-person singular indicative of eo, ire, to go)

Personal pronoun

is m; (f ea, n id, plural ei)

1. He (third-person singular personal pronoun).

Declension

Irregular: similar to first and second declensions, except for singular genitives ending in "-ius" and singular datives ending in "-ī".

Number	Singular				Plural
Case \ Gender	M.	F.	N.		MM.	FF.	NN.
Nominative	is	ea	id		eī, iī	eae	ea
Genitive	eius	eius	eius		eōrum	eārum	eōrum
Dative	eī	eī	eī		eīs	eīs	eīs
Accusative	eum	eam	id		eōs	eās	ea
Ablative	eō	eā	eō		eīs	eīs	eīs

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Swedish

Noun

is

1. ice