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Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryfirst-person plural simple present of be · second-person plural simple present of be · third-person plural simple present of be
From Middle English aren, from Old English earon, earun, present plural indicative of Old English bēon (“to be”). Equivalent to are + -en. More at are.
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