From Middle English ybeen, been, past participle of been (“to be”), from Old English ġebēon, past participle of bēon (“to be”), equivalent to be + -en.
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From Middle English been, be, present plural of been (“to be”) (with the -n leveled in from the past and subjunctive; compare competing forms aren/are, beth), from Old English bēoþ, present plural of bēon (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *biunþi, third-person present plural of *beuną (“to be, become”).
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From Middle English been, from Old English bēon (“bees”), nominative and accusative plural of bēo (“bee”), equivalent to bee + -en.
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Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder. 2003. The Harvard Dialect Survey: been. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Linguistics Department.
been (plural bene or beendere, diminutive beentjie)
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From Middle Dutch bêen, from Old Dutch bēn, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.
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been n (plural benen, diminutive beentje n)
been n (plural beenderen or benen, diminutive beentje n)
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From Old Dutch bēn, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.
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This noun needs an inflection-table template.
From a conflation of Old English bēon and wesan, from Proto-Germanic *beuną and *wesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewHeti and a conflation of *h₂wéseti and *h₁ésti.
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infinitive | (to) been | |
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indicative | present | past |
1st person singular | am, be | was |
2nd person singular | art, bist | were, wast |
3rd person singular | is, bith, biþ | was |
plural | are(n), beth, bee(n) | were(n) |
subjunctive | present | past |
singular | be, si | wer(e) |
plural | been | weren |
imperative | present | |
singular | be | |
plural | beth, beþ | |
participle | present | past |
beinge, beende | (y)been |
From Old English bēon, nominative plural form of bēo, from Proto-Germanic *bijōniz, nominative plural form of *bijǭ.
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From Old English ġebēon, past participle of bēon (“to be”); equivalent to y- + be + -en.
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The usual plural form of been is aren in the North, been in the Midlands, and beth in the South; sind also existed, especially early on, but was not the predominant form in any area.
From Middle English ybeen, from Old English ġebēon, past participle of bēon (“to be”).
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