be
A1Frequent NGSL-1UK /bi/US /bi/
Meaning
verb
used when you are naming people or things, describing them or giving more information about them
“+ noun, Today is Monday.”
auxiliary verb
used with a present participle to form progressive tenses
“I am studying Chinese.”
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“We want to be excited about what's going to happen.”
📺 Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)Learn this word in the video →
“was going to be a big commercial thing”
📺 Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders LectureLearn this word in the video →
“the best way for me to inte great and be”
📺 Joe Tsai Co-founder & Chair of AlibabaLearn this word in the video →
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