there be

Etymology
The expletive there, from, to fill the first position in English's historic V2 word order.

Verb

 * 1) The specified thing exists, physically or abstractly.
 * 2) * 1749, Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, J. Baskerville, page 8:
 * If there be any thing ILL in the Univerſe from Deſign, then that which diſpoſes all things, is no one good deſigning Principle.
 * 1) * 1907, Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, J.B. Lippincott, Co., page 627:
 * Unless there be some lesion of the stomach, there is no blood, either microscopic or occult.
 * Unless there be some lesion of the stomach, there is no blood, either microscopic or occult.

Usage notes

 * When introducing more than one noun phrase, the verb often agrees with the number of the first noun phrase. Whether distinctions are made for pluralization can vary from one speaker to the next.
 * There is a swing and a seesaw for kids.
 * Non-finite forms (subjunctive, infinitive) nearly always break up the phase with to, i.e. there to be, as in e.g. “were there to be …” or “in order for there to be …”. However, it may not be considered a true infinitive, as, unlike the “to …” infinitive construction for typical verbs, there to be cannot be used as a standalone nominal infinitive (though there is a rare gerund there being) nor as an infinitive of purpose. (Examples of ungrammatical phrases: *There to be rain would be a reason to bring an umbrella; *There to be a big enough party, you must invite more people.)

Translations

 * Afrikaans: daar's
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: haber-bi, haber-ie
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian:, ме́цца, ёсць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 有
 * Mandarin:
 * Dolgan: баар
 * Dutch: + any of the existence verbs, , , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: (es gibt)
 * Alemannic German: haa, gee
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: bí ann
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: бар
 * Khakas: пар
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ມີ
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian: va būti
 * Lü: ᦙᦲ
 * Malay:
 * Manchu: ᠪᡳ, ᠪᡳᠮᠪᡳ
 * Neapolitan: nce stà
 * Norwegian: det er, det finnes
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romani: si
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: det finnas
 * Tagalog: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Tuvan: бар
 * Ukrainian:, ма́тися,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yakut: баар
 * Yiddish: איז דאָ