இரு

Etymology
Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to be
 * 2) remain

Conjugation
Imperative: இரு

Present (1st person): இருக்கெ

Past (1st person): இருந்தெ

Etymology 1
Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to be
 * 2) to exist
 * 3) (with dative or locative subject) to have (see usage notes)
 * 4) to stay, remain, wait
 * 5) to sit
 * 1) to stay, remain, wait
 * 2) to sit
 * 1) to stay, remain, wait
 * 2) to sit
 * 1) to sit
 * 1) to sit

Usage notes

 * Tamil is a language for present-tense sentences whose predicate is a noun. Thus, this verb is not always used as a translation for all senses of 'be'. For example, to describe what or who something or someone is (e.g. "My name is Will"), no verbs are used. When using an adjective that does not precede a noun (e.g. "This food is good"), the adjective is treated as an adverb and is placed before the verb, or there is no verb and a noun is used. However, when describing what/who someone/something was in any tense but the present, இரு is used after an adverb derived from the predicate (see ). For example,  but.
 * For saying to have, the verb will conjugate with the possessed object, not the possessor. Use the dative when the possessed object is something which is permanently, habitually, or inalienably possessed, such as, "I have black hair," . Use the locative when the object is possessed temporarily.
 * To negate the sense of to have in the present tense, much like saying that something does not exist, a verb is not necessary; instead, just use . For negation in any other tense, use a negative conjugation of . For example, "I won't have my cell phone," is, "."

Etymology 2
From.

Adjective

 * 1) twice, two, double