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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English been (past participle), from Old English (ġe)bēon.

Pronunciation[edit]

(General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪn/
- Homophone: bin
- Rhymes: -ɪn
(General American, particularly common in the Great Lakes, Midwest) IPA^(key): /bɛn/
- Homophone: Ben
- Rhymes: -ɛn
(Received Pronunciation, US dialectal) IPA^(key): /biːn/
- Homophone: bean
- Rhymes: -iːn
(unstressed) IPA^(key): /bɨn/, [bɪ̈n]

Verb[edit]

been

past participle of be.

All the fries have been eaten.

They been here since yesterday. (dialectal, e.g. AAVE, omitting have)
(Southern US or African-American Vernacular) remote past form of be.

He been had that job.

We been knew they was doing this.
- 2013, DayQuan Miller, Back Blocks, StealthMode Entertainment, page 147:
  
  She was disloyal, Casper was disloyal, so them muthafuckas gotta go. Like you said[,] we been knew we was going to have to kill Frost, so let’s do it and Light too.” Star said. “Say no more. I’ma handle Kisha myself.” Max said walking to the door.

Etymology 2[edit]

Either from Middle English been (“to be”, infinitive) (from Old English bēon), or from a dialectal use of the preceding past tense form as an infinitive form (compare dialectal use of (I)’s, (I) is in the first person, (he) am in the third person, etc).

Verb[edit]

been

(Southern US or African-American Vernacular, rare) Synonym of be (infinitival sense).

It useta been five foot long.
- 1875, Minstrel Gags and End Men’s Hand-book, New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, page 83; republished New York: Literature House, 1969:
  
  «Bones», says he, «I tink dey’s a-goin’ to been a war ober de Alabamy question […]
- 1888, Mary Augusta Ward, “Book I”, in Robert Elsmere‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Company, page 20:
  
  Yur a boald ‘un to tell the missus theer to hur feeace as how ya wur ‘tossicatit whan ya owt to been duing yur larful business.

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English been (plural indicative form).

Verb[edit]

been

(obsolete) plural simple present of be.
- 1584, George Peele, The Arraignment of Paris, I, ii
  
  My love is fair, my love is gay,
  
  As fresh as been the flowers in May;
- c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, Prologue]:
  
  Where when men been, there’s ſeldome eaſe,
- 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, iii
  
  O Friar, those are faults that are not seen,
  
  Ours open, and of worse example been.
- 1686, Edward Fairfax, transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne: Or, The Recovery of Jerusalem‎^[3], 20, page 8:
  
  Some of green Boughs their slender Cabbins frame, / Some lodged were Tortoſa’s streets about, / Of all the Hoſt the Chief of Worth and Name / Aſſembled been, a Senate grave and ſtout;

Etymology 4[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /biːn/

Noun[edit]

been

(UK dialectal) plural of bee

References[edit]

Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder. 2003. The Harvard Dialect Survey: been. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Linguistics Department.

Anagrams[edit]

Bene, Eben, NEbE, bene, eben, neeb

Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch been, from Middle Dutch bêen, from Old Dutch bēn, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

been (plural bene or beendere, diminutive beentjie)

leg of a human or humanoid
bone
(in the diminutive) Synonym of ossikel (“ossicle”)

Usage notes[edit]

The plural beendere is used alternatively in the sense “bone”, especially collectively.

Synonyms[edit]

poot (leg, of an animal)
boud (leg, a cut of meat)

Derived terms[edit]

penisbeen

Basque[edit]

Noun[edit]

been

genitive plural of be

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /beːn/
Hyphenation: been
Rhymes: -eːn

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Dutch bêen, from Old Dutch bēn, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

Noun[edit]

been n (plural benen, diminutive beentje n)

leg, limb of a person, horse (other animals’ would have poten) and certain objects (again many have poten)

De benen van een passer. ― The legs of a pair of compasses.
(mathematics) side, leg

De benen van een hoek. ― The sides of an angle.
the upper part of a sock, above the ankle.

Usage notes[edit]

The contemporary plural benen is derived from an analogy to other nouns with regular plurals. Originally, been was left unchanged in the plural; such use in preserved only in set phrases like op de been (“upright, standing, awake”).

Noun[edit]

been n (plural beenderen or benen, diminutive beentje n)

bone, constituent part of a skeleton.

Synonyms: bot, knook, knekel
(uncountable) bone, the chalky material bones are made of.

Synonym: bot

Derived terms[edit]

beenafzetting
beenbreek
beenbreker
beenbreuk
beenprothese
beenveeg
beenvis
beenvlies
benen
benig
borstbeen
bovenbeen
darmbeen
de benen nemen
dijbeen
gebeente
heiligbeen
heupbeen
jukbeen
kraakbeen
kuitbeen
middenhandsbeen
middenvoetsbeen
onderbeen
ontbenen
op de been
penisbeen
schaambeen
schedelbeen
scheenbeen
sleutelbeen
spaakbeen
spillebeen
staartbeen
tongbeen
tweebeen
tweebenig
uitbenen
verbenen
zeefbeen
zitbeen

Descendants[edit]

Afrikaans: been
Berbice Creole Dutch: been
Jersey Dutch: beîn
Negerhollands: been
→ Arawak: bèna

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

been

first-person singular present indicative of benen
imperative of benen

Anagrams[edit]

bene

Dutch Low Saxon[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Low German Been, from Middle Low German bên, from Old Saxon bēn.

Noun[edit]

been

Finnish[edit]

Noun[edit]

been

genitive/accusative singular of bee

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Dutch bēn, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

Noun[edit]

bêen n

leg
foot
bone

Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms[edit]

bein (Limburgish)

Descendants[edit]

Dutch: been
- Afrikaans: been
- Berbice Creole Dutch: been
- Jersey Dutch: beîn
- Negerhollands: been
- → Arawak: bèna
Limburgish: bein

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From a conflation of Old English bēon and wesan, from Proto-West Germanic *beun and *wesan, from Proto-Germanic *beuną and *wesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewHeti and a conflation of *h₂wéseti and *h₁ésti.

Alternative forms[edit]

be, bean, ben, beon, boen
(from *h₁ésti, rare) seen, sen

Pronunciation[edit]

(Early ME) IPA^(key): /bøːn/
IPA^(key): /beːn/

Verb[edit]

been (third-person singular simple present is, present participle beynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative was, past participle been)

(intransitive) To be; to exist or have existence:
1. (intransitive) To occur; to come to be.
2. (with adjective or adverb) To be with a certain quality or in a certain situation.
3. (transitive) To be to or for someone or something.
(copulative) To be something or someone.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[4], published c. 1410, Apocalips 3:15, page 118v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe’s translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
  
  I woot þi werkis · foꝛ nei[þer] þou art coold nei[þer] þou art hoot / I wolde þat þou were coold ei[þer] hoot
  
  I know your actions: you aren’t cold, but neither are you hot. I’d like it if you were either cold or hot.
- 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:
  
  […] Filip of Repintoun whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, monke of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte, and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and prudent […]
  
  (please add an English translation of this quote)
1. (with genitive) To be someone’s; to be in someone’s possession.
2. (auxiliary) Forms the continuous present and perfect.
3. (auxiliary) Forms the perfect tense with some intransitive verbs.
(auxiliary) Forms various passive constructions.

Usage notes[edit]

ben may be used elliptically if the subject, complement, or predicate is implicit.
The perfect tense is usually formed with haven; see that entry for more.

Conjugation[edit]

infinitive	(to) been, be
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	am, be	was
2nd-person singular	art, bist	were
3rd-person singular	is, bith	was
subjunctive singular	be	were
imperative singular	—

plural¹	aren, are, been, be	weren, were
subjunctive plural¹	been, be
imperative plural	beth, be	—

participles	beynge, beende	been, be, ybeen, ybe

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants[edit]

English: be; been (dialectal)
Scots: be
Yola: ba, bee, be, b’

References[edit]

“bẹ̄n, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old French and Medieval Latin, from Arabic بَان‎ (bān, “ben tree”).

Noun[edit]

been

ben (moringa tree)

Descendants[edit]

English: ben

References[edit]

“bēn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3[edit]

From Old English bēon, nominative plural form of bēo, from Proto-Germanic *bijōniz, nominative plural form of *bijǭ. Equivalent to bee +‎ -en (plural suffix).

Noun[edit]

been

plural of bee (“bee”)

Etymology 4[edit]

From Old English ġebēon, past participle of bēon (“to be”); equivalent to y- +‎ be +‎ -en (participial suffix).

Alternative forms[edit]

ybeen, ybe

Verb[edit]

been

past participle of been (“to be”)

Descendants[edit]

English: been
Scots: been

Etymology 5[edit]

From (with the -þ replaced with an -n leveled in from the past and subjunctive) Old English bēoþ, present plural of bēon (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *biunþi, third-person present plural of *beuną (“to be, become”).

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

been

plural present indicative of been (“to be”)

Usage notes[edit]

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.

Descendants[edit]

English: been (obsolete as the plural)

Etymology 6[edit]

From Old English bēon, present subjunctive plural of bēon (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *biwīn, third-person present subjunctive plural of *beuną (“to be, become”).

Verb[edit]

been

plural present subjunctive of been (“to be”)

Descendants[edit]

English: be
Scots: be

Etymology 7[edit]

Noun[edit]

been (plural beenes or beenen)

Alternative form of bene (“bean”)

Scots[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English ybeen, from Old English ġebēon, past participle of bēon (“to be”).

Verb[edit]

been

past participle of be

Yola[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English bee, from Old English bēo, from Proto-Germanic *bijō.

Noun[edit]

been

bees

References[edit]

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 25

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I have heard usage of «been» other that in perfect continuous tense.

like when we are talking about past, could we say that «I been given some work»?

is the above sentence correct? if not why?

but, this sentence convince me, because it is the situation in which i am talking about past and some thing happened on me, so in order to say that i need to use forms of «be», but i cannot say in perfect form because «have » and «had» is not form of «be», but if i use «have been» or «had been» then it will be in perfect continuous, again i don’t want to add continuous sense to it, it should be in perfect with 3rd form of verb.

am i correct?

asked Nov 27, 2017 at 14:15

That usage is not correct. There is no tense where you can just use “been” by itself, it always follows a form of the verb “to have”.

In the US, “I been given” can be used as slang, but that use is stereotypical of poorly educated people and widely avoided.

answered Nov 27, 2017 at 14:19

«I have been given some work» can be contracted to «I’ve been given some work.»

The ‘ve part of contractions can often be very quiet when spoken quickly or not enunciated perfectly, and in certain varieties and dynamics of English slang, it can be omitted entirely, particularly if been is emphasized loudly.

It’s always supposed to be there, though. «I been gone» and «I have been gone» don’t mean different things, for example, so there is no additional use or tense available with been.

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Crossword clues for been

been

Unflattering word with «has»
Snake-charmer’s instrument
Snake charmer’s clarinet
Second word of «A Hard Day’s Night»
Once had the job of
Nirvana song «___ a Son»
Jane’s Addiction «___ Caught Stealing»
It’s-grand link
It’s grand link
It might have ___ (Whittiers saddest words)
How’ve you __?
Has-____ (former star)
Has-___ (former star)
Has-___ (former celebrity)
Has- ____: one past it
Has follower
Has ___
Had a job as
Form of Hamlet’s verb
Dr. Dre «___ There, Done That»
Clint Black «___ There»
Cardigans «___ It»
(Had) worked as
«Who’s ___ Sleeping in My Bed?»
«What have you — up to?»
«We’ve all ___ there» («I can relate»)
«This has ___ a long time coming»
«Since U ___ Gone» (Kelly Clarkson #1 hit)
«Life’s — Good» (Joe Walsh tune)
«It’s — grand!»
«It’s ____ real»
«It’s ___ real!» («I had a great time!»)
«It’s ___ fun»
«It’s ___ fun!»
«It’s ___ done to death»
«It’s ___ a while!»
«It’s ___ a hard day’s night . . .»
«It’s __ too long»
«It’s __ a while»
«I’ve ____ Lonely Too Long»
«I’ve ___ watching you»
«I’ve ___ to the mountaintop» (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
«I’ve ___ to the Mountaintop» (Martin Luther King speech)
«I’ve ___ there»
«I’ve ___ Everywhere» (Hank Snow hit)
«I’ve __ robbed!»
«I’ve __ busy»
«How’ve you __?»
«How’ve ya ___?»
«How long has it __?»
«— there, done…»
«___ to Canaan» (Carole King song)
«___ there, done …»
«___ Down So Long» (the Doors)
«___ Caught Stealing» Jane’s Addiction
«___ Caught Stealing» (Jane’s Addiction song)
«___ Around the World» (Puff Daddy song)
«__ waiting long?»
«__ to Canaan»: Carole King hit
«__ there, done that!»
«__ there, . . .»
» … I’ve __ to the mountaintop»: King
‘Where’ve you —?’
‘Where have you ?’
‘It’s — real!’
‘It’s — great’
‘I’ve — had!’
»It’s __ real!»
»I’ve __ Working on the Railroad»
____ there, done that
«I’ve ___ toLondon to…»

Existed
Stayed
«It’s ___ real!» (parting words)
«___ here long?»
«___ there, done that»
«___ So Long» (1958 hit)
«I’ve ___ had!»
«It’s ___ real»
Fats Domino’s «I’ve ___ Around»
«___ there»
Lived
Has-___ (washed-up celebrity)
«Have you ___ good?»
«I’ve ___ to London . . . »
«We’ve ___ had!»
Homophone for bin
«It might have ___»
Eben’s anagram
Has-___ (faded star)
«Because thou hast ___ faithful . . . «: Luke 19:17
Auxiliary verb
«I’ve ___ working on . . . »
«Have You Ever ___ Lonely?»
Has attachment
Past participle of be
Common verb
Part 4 of today’s quote
Functioned as
Served as
«Where have you ___?»
End of today’s quote
«How have you ___?»
«Where have you ___ all my life?»
«It’s ___ grand!»
«___ waiting long?»
‘It’s — real’
»___ there, done that»
»___ there, done that!»
»___ here long?»
«Where’ve you __?»
«Never ___ Kissed» (Drew Barrymore film)
«It’s ___ a pleasure»
«It’s __ real!»
«It’s __ fun»
«I’ve __ had!»
«How’ve you ___?»
«How long’s it ___?»
«Has» attachment
Worked as
Word with has
Word with «has»
Visited, … to
Second word of »A Hard Day’s Night»
Kelly Clarkson’s «Since U ___ Gone»
«Where ya ___?»
«Someone’s __ sleeping in my bed»
«It’s ___ a long, long time»
«I’ve ___ working on the railroad …»
«I’ve ___ to London to see …»
«I’ve ___ to London to see . . .»
«I’ve ___ thinking …»
«I’ve __ thinking . . .»
«How you ___?»
«How ya ___?»
«— there, done that»
«__ there …»
‘Where have you —?’
»We’ve ___ had!»
»Life’s ___ Good» (Joe Walsh tune)
»I’ve ___ robbed!»
Whittier’s saddest last word

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

been

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

been…good to

▪ The company’s always been very good to me.

have been to (=have travelled to)

▪ I have been to Germany several times.

Have you ever been to (=have you ever travelled to)

▪ Have you ever been to Japan?

It has been suggested that

▪ It has been suggested that the manager will resign if any more players are sold.

it’s been a long…haul

▪ At last we’ve won our freedom but it’s been a long bitter haul.

sb/sth has never been known to do sth (=used to say that something is strange because it has never happened before)

▪ Max had never been known to leave home without telling anyone.

the groundwork has…been done

▪ Much of the groundwork has already been done.

there has been a misunderstanding

▪ There’s been a misunderstanding about what I meant.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(it’s been) nice meeting/talking to you

have been around

▪ I’ve been around the block a few times, and I think I know when someone’s trying to cheat me.

▪ When you’ve been around as long as I have you realize some things aren’t worth getting upset about.

▪ Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms.

▪ Demos have been around as long as computer games.

▪ Most of them have been around a lot longer.

▪ Neural networks used for robotics and control applications have been around for a relatively long time.

▪ Some have been around a long time, others are of more recent origins.

▪ The usual suspects are labor unions, which have been around for a century.

▪ They have been around, practically unchanged, for at least 200 million years.

▪ Though I must have been around just at that time, I think.

justice has been done/served

▪ He can continue to appeal, or go to some other level, until he feels justice has been done.

▪ He has successfully persuaded the crowd that justice has been done.

▪ Mr Townsend says he feels justice has been done.

▪ Mrs Alliss’ solicitor says justice has been done.

look as if you’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards

sb has been had

The Collaborative International Dictionary

Been

Be Be (b[=e]), v. i. [imp. Was (w[o^]z); p. p. Been
(b[i^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Being.] [OE. been, beon, AS.
be[‘o]n to be, be[‘o]m I am; akin to OHG. bim, pim, G. bin, I
am, Gael. & Ir. bu was, W. bod to be, Lith. bu-ti, O. Slav.
by-ti, to be, L. fu-i I have been, fu-turus about to be,
fo-re to be about to be, and perh. to fieri to become, Gr.
fy^nai to be born, to be, Skr. bh[=u] to be. This verb is
defective, and the parts lacking are supplied by verbs from
other roots, is, was, which have no radical connection with
be. The various forms, am, are, is, was, were, etc., are
considered grammatically as parts of the verb «to be»,
which, with its conjugational forms, is often called the
substantive verb. [root]97. Cf. Future, Physic.]

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have
existence.

To be contents his natural desire.
—Pope.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.
—Shak.
To exist in a certain manner or relation, — whether as a
reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the
subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a
certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or
as identical with what is specified, — a word or words
for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be
here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a
hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five;
annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the
man.
To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.
To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.

The field is the world.
—Matt. xiii.
38.

The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the
seven churches.
—Rev. i. 20.

Note: The verb to be (including the forms is, was, etc.) is
used in forming the passive voice of other verbs; as,
John has been struck by James. It is also used with the
past participle of many intransitive verbs to express a
state of the subject. But have is now more commonly
used as the auxiliary, though expressing a different
sense; as, «Ye have come too late — but ye are come.
» «The minstrel boy to the war is gone.» The present
and imperfect tenses form, with the infinitive, a
particular future tense, which expresses necessity,
duty, or purpose; as, government is to be supported; we
are to pay our just debts; the deed is to be signed
to-morrow.

Note: Have or had been, followed by to, implies movement. «I
have been to Paris.»
—Sydney Smith. «Have you been
to Franchard ?»
—R. L. Stevenson.

Note: Been, or ben, was anciently the the
indicative present. «Ye ben light of the world.»

—Wyclif, Matt. v. 14. Afterwards be was used, as in
our Bible: «They that be with us are more than they
that be with them.»
—2 Kings vi. 16. Ben was also the
old infinitive: «To ben of such power.»
—R. of
Gloucester. Be is used as a form of the present
subjunctive: «But if it be a question of words and
names.»
—Acts xviii. 1
But the indicative forms, is
and are, with if, are more commonly used.

Be it so, a phrase of supposition, equivalent to suppose it
to be so; or of permission, signifying let it be so.

—Shak.

If so be, in case.

To be from, to have come from; as, from what place are you?
I am from Chicago.

To let be, to omit, or leave untouched; to let alone. «Let
be, therefore, my vengeance to dissuade.»
—Spenser.

Syn: To be, Exist.

Usage: The verb to be, except in a few rare cases, like that
of Shakespeare’s «To be, or not to be», is used
simply as a copula, to connect a subject with its
predicate; as, man is mortal; the soul is immortal.
The verb to exist is never properly used as a mere
copula, but points to things that stand forth, or have
a substantive being; as, when the soul is freed from
all corporeal alliance, then it truly exists. It is
not, therefore, properly synonymous with to be when
used as a copula, though occasionally made so by some
writers for the sake of variety; as in the phrase
«there exists [is] no reason for laying new taxes.»
We may, indeed, say, «a friendship has long existed
between them,» instead of saying, «there has long
been a friendship between them;» but in this case,
exist is not a mere copula. It is used in its
appropriate sense to mark the friendship as having
been long in existence.

Been

Been Been [OE. beon, ben, bin, p. p. of been, beon, to be. See
Be.]
The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the
pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee.

Assembled been a senate grave and stout.
—Fairfax.

Douglas Harper’s Etymology Dictionary

been

past participle of be. Dismissive slang phrase been there, done that attested from 1994 (been there «had the experience,» usually of something disreputable, is from 1880s).

Wiktionary

been

Etymology 1 alt. 1 (past participle of be English) 2 (context obsolete English) were vb. 1 (past participle of be English) 2 (context obsolete English) were Etymology 2

n. (context UK dialectal English) (plural of bee English)

WordNet

v. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); «John is rich»; «This is not a good answer»
be identical to; be someone or something; «The president of the company is John Smith»; «This is my house»
occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; «Where is my umbrella?» «The toolshed is in the back»; «What is behind this behavior?»
have an existence, be extant; «Is there a God?» [syn: exist]
happen, occur, take place; «I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents’ house»; «There were two hundred people at his funeral»; «There was a lot of noise in the kitchen»
be identical or equivalent to; «One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!» [syn: equal] [ant: differ]
form or compose; «This money is my only income»; «The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance»; «These constitute my entire belonging»; «The children made up the chorus»; «This sum represents my entire income for a year»; «These few men comprise his entire army» [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise]
work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; «He is a herpetologist»; «She is our resident philosopher» [syn: follow]
represent, as of a character on stage; «Derek Jacobi was Hamlet» [syn: embody, personify]
spend or use time; «I may be an hour»
have life, be alive; «Our great leader is no more»; «My grandfather lived until the end of war» [syn: live]
to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted — used only in infinitive form; «let her be»
be priced at; «These shoes cost $100» [syn: cost]
[also: were, was, is, been, are, am]

Wikipedia

Been

Been may refer to:

To be
Have been
Been (surname)
Pungi or been, an Indian wind instrument
Rudra veena or been, a string instrument

Been (surname)

Been is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Dick Been (1914–1978), Dutch footballer
Harry Been (born 1949), Dutch football official
Mario Been (born 1963), Dutch footballer and manager
Michael Been (1950–2010), American musician
Robert Levon Been (born 1978), American musician
Saneita Been (born 1986), Turks and Caicos Islands beauty pageant winner

Usage examples of «been».

No argument for the divine authority of Christianity has been urged with greater force, or traced with higher eloquence, than that deduced from its primary development, explicable on no other hypothesis than a heavenly origin, and from its rapid extension through great part of the Roman empire.

Christian benevolencethe tranquil heroism of endurance, the blameless purity, the contempt of guilty fame and of honors destructive to the human race, which, had they assumed the proud name of philosophy, would have been blazoned in his brightest words, because they own religion as their principlesink into narrow asceticism.

It may be no unsalutary lesson to the Christian world, that this silent, this unavoidable, perhaps, yet fatal change shall have been drawn by an impartial, or even an hostile hand.

Many of his observations have been found as applicable to the work of Gibbon as to that of Le Beau.

In this new edition, the text and the notes have been carefully revised, the latter by the editor.

Some additional notes have been subjoined, distinguished by the signature M.

The most patient Reader, who computes that three ponderous volumes have been already employed on the events of four centuries, may, perhaps, be alarmed at the long prospect of nine hundred years.

Instead of exposing his person and his legions to the arrows of the Parthians, he obtained, by an honorable treaty, the restitution of the standards and prisoners which had been taken in the defeat of Crassus.

The military strength, which it had been sufficient for Hadrian and the elder Antoninus to display, was exerted against the Parthians and the Germans by the emperor Marcus.

It had been occupied by a powerful colony of Gauls, who, settling themselves along the banks of the Po, from Piedmont to Romagna, carried their arms and diffused their name from the Alps to the Apennine.

Crete, or Candia, with Cyprus, and most of the smaller islands of Greece and Asia, have been subdued by the Turkish arms, whilst the little rock of Malta defies their power, and has emerged, under the government of its military Order, into fame and opulence.

We may be well assured that a writer, conversant with the world, would never have ventured to expose the gods of his country to public ridicule, had they not already been the objects of secret contempt among the polished and enlightened orders of society.

Till the privileges of Romans had been progressively extended to all the inhabitants of the empire, an important distinction was preserved between Italy and the provinces.

Had she always confined the distinction of Romans to the ancient families within the walls of the city, that immortal name would have been deprived of some of its noblest ornaments.

Hadrian, it was disputed which was the preferable condition, of those societies which had issued from, or those which had been received into, the bosom of Rome.

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9/10 Xd nOT PERFECT Xd bUT GOOD

ayoub morocco

Thank you for such an excellent work. Would it be possible to explain what if remove “being” from the example sentence?

Kashif

while thanking you Alex please let me know the difference meaning of..1)He is generous AND 2)He is being generous.

RANJITH—SRILANKA

Please Alex explain us the difference between “He is generous” and “He is being generous”

ela1

it’s being more nice

kotoz

thaanks this has been of great help

nizam

I am proud to learn bahasa, malaysia my people, I often do not know how becakap bahasa, after I learned the video crew, I know it means thank you alex learn bahasa.
do a lot – a lot is another word bahasa

syahrul nizam

bahasa is a language for indonesian-native. malaysian uses melayu/malay. btw, what’s your point dude. i don’t understand what did u meant?

Hany

what did you meant..it’s a wrong sentence. it will be what did you mean?

Prasant

thank you!!!!!)))))

evgenia

thank you,Alex!)))))

Evgenia A

its very useful for me alex . i enjoyed it as well and learned the difference between been and being so i am very grateful to you . keep ti up

abbas khan

This session has been useful.
Thank you!

Barry

hi!! alex,
Thank you for discussing that topic. its very helpful. i have learned a lot..
I have a question if you don’t mind. can you help me with a little explanation in using the words, such as: ” in inspite of” and ” despite of” than you very much.

joel

thank you for your lesson it is important to understand difference between those two words.

tawfik

what The difference between i and me

akagarry

“I” is used as a subject of a sentence, while “me” is used as an object.

For example:
“I visited my parents.” (you are doing the action and are the subject)

“My parents visited me.” (“My parents” is the subject, and you are receiving the action)

Thanks for the question.

Alex

Dear Alex, i am confused to identify the “subject” in the following sentences for whether to use “I/me”:

1) Between you and (I, me), there is no great difference.;
2) There are three tables.;
3) Mary is much cleverer than (they, them).;
4) He knows the secret as well as (she, her).

Thanks in advance!

ric

Thank you Alejandro, your classes are very interesting for me because I have been improving my english.

If you have time is possible you explain me what that’s mean the means word in differents sentences please? For me it’s a little confuse.
for example:
I meant we’d have to leave early – that’s all.
It’s pretty obvious what she means.

Thanks

Ximena from Santiago de Chile

Ximena

“To mean” means to have a specific purpose, intention, or idea in mind when you say or do something.

“I meant to call my mother, but I didn’t.”

This means that your purpose was to call your mother, but that you didn’t do it.

“It’s pretty obvious what she means” means that there is no question about what her intention, idea, or purpose is with her words.

I hope this helps!

Alex

this web is very useful

steven man

710

n0osa

same with me.

hoatpvdo

Could you please make a lesson about gerunds?
I’m having trouble with them.

Thank you.

Maksim

I believe that we will have a lesson on gerunds in the future. Keep checking back!

Alex

progresive tenses and continous tenses era the same??? by the way very good lessons thanks for you teaching me xD

jooz

That is correct. Some books call the “subject + be + -ing” structure the continuous tense, while others call it the progressive tense. They are two names for the same tense.

Alex

Hi alex. I wanna ask you something. It’s possible use this sentence ” Yesterday, she was harassed by the police”?. What is the difference between this sentence and your explanation’s sentence?.
Thank you and sorry by the grammar.

carolina

That sentence is possible. It is a passive construction, because “she” received the action. It is the simple past, which means that it happened at a specific time in the past and that it is a finished action.

Alex

thanks……….

nizam m

Thanks you alex…………………

nizam m

Excellent video. Thanks a lot. All of the video that have been publihed are usefull

lisbeth

thank you very munch teacher!

izzy

Hi Alex
I would like to ask you one quiz ..what’s the distiguish between these ..
1) think
2) conceive
3) envisage
i know about think but not sure about conceive and envisage let me know Are these same or distinct?? Check out these sentences Are these right or wrong?
1) i was just conceiving about your.
2) what do u conceive about this ?
3) what do u envisage about this?
4) i’m envisaging about your .
i’ll very grateful to you .have a nice day..!!

sandeep

fantastic

amany

thank you teavher alex

hmed

hi alex .your lessons are very knowledgeable for me . can you please tell me that what’s the difference among these three words …………… ‘see’ ‘watch’ and ‘look’

abbas khan

Hi. I have 3 questions.

First: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN: “HI” and “HELLO” ??

Second: WHEN USING “MAKE” or “MADE” ??

Last One: WHEN USING ‘THE’ ?? For exemple:
He is the best..in something. ??
or
He is best in something. ??

P.S. You can make a movie about it. But pls help me. Thank you.

Melcu Suzana

Thanks Teacher Alex,You’re a great teacher

Marwa

Thank you sir,
I have been confused to use these two words since ever. Now I am trying and will get command soon.
Again Thanks very much for your effort.
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Mansoor Cheema

Original sentence: “When I was walking along the street, I met Tom.”

Modified sentence: “Being walking along the street, I met Tom.” – Is that grammatically correct or incorrect? And why.

John

Thank you Alex, you doing graet job. God bless you.
I have problem with grammar. i taking Eng 093 in USA and i have problem with complex , indepanded cluse, complen and ….. What is you advise for me Mr. Alex

jaklin

Hello, Alex I wish you are fine and feeling well at this time, i really like your beautiful lessons very much and Alex! i desire and request you to have a video about the (fuck) word, i understand the meaning so it is very shy for me to tell you but i am from Afghanistan in Kandahar province most of foreign guys that i am working with them or they are working in Afghanistan so, they are using this word a lots in common way or in Administration places so, i once again request you that, explain this word me please thanks, Studious, Najmuddin-John

Najmuddin-John

is there any difference for the following
the girl was arrested by police yesterday
the girl was being arrested by police yesterday

PEGGY

Hello everyone! I made a transcribe of this lesson. If you need it please contact me at this email: thangnn.ineep@hotmail.com. Good luck!

Obey

Dear Alex,
Please tell me the difference(s) between ,,,
Mark is generous as opposed to Mark is being generous..
And wondering how to say it in the future tense as well.
Thank you so much
P.S.Love your style and also need to know where I can find some lectures on Verbals passive and reduction of clauses to phrases, such as Adjective , and adverbial clauses to phrases..

Maxy

Hi,Alex, this website seems a good and very useful place for us improving our english ,and i have tried to check my computer for many times,but i still couldn’t see english video lesson,can you tell me how i can do?

cctvit

hello Alex thank you for good lessons and do you want a email to me no problem my email is eumja1404@naver.com see you next time

joon

Hi,Alex ,today,I reset the computer and i can watch the english video lesson now. Thank you all the same.

cctvit

Thank you so much sir Alex!

marianne

Hi Alex,
please answer the sandeep’s querries, I have the same problem.
Thanx

Liwal

hi Alex i really liked your teaching.i have problem in using relative pronouns.plz help me

sajida

thank you much i learn from it…

charisa monsalud

10/10
w00t.

Vivian

I scored 10! thanks Alex. You explained this lesson very well.

Mitch

Thanks your class is very good

bijendra_kumawat

Really excellent, thanks

fernanda

Thanks so much, It has been a very good lesson to me!

silvua

thank u alex.this lesson is very important for me

harry

Thanks so much

Maui

Thanks

donatas1

I feel better when i m seen these videos. they are made me very interesting everyday ! Thank you guys

Juan Carlos

Hello everyone!Good luck!
and thank’s alex

hana lattar

Hello everyone!Good luck!
and thank’s alex

hana lattar

“the students has been studying for 5 hours”

i have one question about this , because i believed that i should to say ” the students (they) have been studing for 5 hours”

why did you say (has)?

rodrigo

If I said “the students has,” then it was a mistake. You’re correct, and the proper structure is “the students have,” or “the student has.”

Alex

hi alex u are the best……thank u so much

aymen

thank’s I didn’t cath all, i’ll watch again and again

lazy student

Hi
could you explane how to use “be used to” and “getting” please?

jyotsna

hi Mr Alex would you like explain me what is difference between confidence and trust?

tawfik

txs ales this i very important in oui studies txs so much

nafissa

thank you!

joms

I’m looking for some private one-on-one tutoring. Are you teaching student in this way?
Thanks.
Oleg.

Oleg

what is the difference between different and difference?

peter

different is an adjective, difference is a noun. each one has a different uses!

M.Johmani

i am from india & my native language is not english,so, how to improve my communication skills(quickly)? and i am very confused in grammer. please help me

neel123

Thanks for all of your lesson.
This section is little bit dificult to perfactly understand…
I’m still confused about how to use in a sentances with being.

ilsuk8966

you have used “have been” with “she” in the sentence,i did not get it because one cant use “have” with “she” according to grammer rule,can you please explain that ?

taim

Carlos V

this website is very useful..

yogesh

Being yogesh is very difficult.. Am I right sir?

yogesh

i like these lessons. can u plz tell me how can i improve my English very soon as posible

fizzitalpur

i like these lessons. can u pl z tell me how can i improve my English very soon as possible

fizzitalpur

Thank you very much, sir!

Derouaz Hanane

i have been to china ..alex would you say the meaning ..i have gone to china- makes sence for me ..

donnasser

thanks a lot for the lession

Sumona

Good lession

Sumona

Oh I’ve got a question, why don’t we say “I’ve been in Alaska” instead of saying “I’ve been to Alaska?”
I want to know what’s the difference between the first sentence and the second one, please.
Thank you.

Derouaz Hanane

thanks a lot

amitbalde

Thank you!! I love it

marisol

Thank you!!

marisol

Thank you Alex; You gave us good lessons

Habraha ODAYGOODA INA DAQON SURMEEYE

i m ayoub and i m from in morocco can you more explin for me about gerand

ayoub

i don’t understand when we use gerund

ayoub

Dear Alex:
I am new to this site and happy to see your good lectures.
I am in need to contact with you can you please let me know your email or can tell me the way we can be in touch?

Waiting.
Thanks

M.Mohsin

THANKS FOR YOUR WONDERFUL LESSONS BUT I WOULD WANT YOU TO EXPLAIN PASSIVE AND ACTIVE VOICE TO ME.I’M REALLY CONFUSE ABOUT THE STUCTURE.THANKS

nurtaza

nice …thanx

Khalid

Thank you Sir !! You teach very well …!!

shaukat

sir u solved my problem thanxxxxxx

sheebaishrat

thanks so much

Jairo Angel

thank you so much dear sir

irfankhan

8/10

valikhan

It’s some what k.But better to give more explanation using examples

vsumanreddy

Hello Alex!
I find your lessons very good and helpfull, also the quiz very exting.
thank you for help
waiting more from you

mbarkeljoia

i am very happy. i learn a lot from you

rasoolkhan

wonderful lesson!

kang

1010!

herve

Thanks a lot for these lessons.
Please i’d like to know the defference between the two words: demand and request and thier use.

Hakim

Good lesson =), thanks

filippo1803

hi alex! great lesson. maybe you could elaborate more on ‘been’. I’m a non-native speaker and maybe I could take some tips to be shared with my friends. Thanks in advance!

apizcraze

9/10

beatakolas

9/10 thanks

Hoan nguyen

thank you alex muchas gracias for helping us to learn english

orlando

nice lesson sir

bunty28

Alex your are very nice and awesome!

swetha

thanks alex.. I had been enlighten by this lecture. You are all great!

jun23

Your lectures are very interesting. I am improving my english a great deal by listening to your lectures.

Muzamil

thanks ……..so much …….

HALAR

Hi Alex could you help me about this structure.
please make me understand which structure is being using in this structure.
The government claims to be doing all it can to eradicate corruption.

spickist

Thanks for helping us !!!

Snow White

This quiz has been helpful

Big Will

It`s been nice and helpful.
Thank you, Alex.

jonascitx

I think it was a very nice lesson

Laila Al Hamid

hi alex I was wondering if you could do me a favor and clear up me what is the difference between when i say she has been harassed and she was being harassed

ali

thanks a lot i am so happy to see your video.
i want to ask been , being difference ple,

shobha

It’s _________ a great day.

* being
* been correct ???
why ?????????
thanks

hssns oso

thank u…….

durgaprasad

Hello Alex, could you pls provide more examples on using “being” in generalizations

Madhu

thank you Alex 10 out of ten

llldawoodlll

thank you alex that you are providing good sugetions and helping for all to who have intrest to modify there mistakes in spoken english but i have one problem and i cant undestand that thing my problem be like this ” can i use this have been for present perfect? like i have been completed my work ” or i have completed my work ” which one is correct in thease two sentence ” ?

Shanth Kumar

thank u sir

kiran

thank you for this lesson

adilmuradi

Thanks Alex you’re so kind and very humble teacher that I had been encountered.. but I have a little confuse in your lessons.. you said earlier regarding the correct used of BEEN! you quote in your lessons that”” IF CAN YOU USE HAD,HAS & HAVE ALWAYS USE a word BEEN….But in the Quiz below their is one question.. it’s (BEEN) (BEING) a great day! I got a mistake that because I answer it BEING” plzz explain to me……. thanks god bless

paquingan.reynaldo

10/10 Thanks a lot!

koroleva

Dear Alex!Thanks for your lessons!I ask you to explain to me when i must use WAS BEING (DONE), and HAVE BEEN (DONE) or HAD BEEN(DONE).I still confuse these tenses(passive voise)Thanks again!

koroleva

nice lesson,thanks a lot )

ann

Thanks Alex, i want to learn more about perfect tenses.Hpoe you will help me

archanabiju

i realy like it thanks for the explication

bibi

9/10 not bad,thanks Sir.Alex

analynnavarette

thanks man

nesta

9/10/ but still great

aqeel

9/10.. good but not perfect.

jhay-ar

I really love the way you explain the sentences! Anyway, I would like to know, when should I use “Even” in a sentence? I need some explanations for it! Thanks before. ^^

Danielle

it has been a good topic

faisal

i have a question about passive? when do we use passive form? and when is the better passive or active ? i have some idea about it, but im still confuse on how to use them. is there a paticular time we have to use the passive form? like for example in the past or present. thanks in advance and looking forward for your useful explanation.

samira

Great help thanks.

frank

Hi, Alex great help but don’t understand it

suba

i am confuse inthe use of BEING in English Grammer,could you guide me

mohsin

yahoo! hi Alex i scored 10/10 in the test

rahul

i am extremely happy of getting some guides

deomande

thanks a lot

deomande

can you please make a difference between shall and will

deomande

Dear Mr. Alex,
I don’t understand about being and been. Can you please explain me with some simple sentence and where we can use in proper english?
Thanks

s.Kumar
Australia

kumar

hi alex, could you please explain if we say -Yesterday, she was harassed by the police – means that subject receiving some action now if we say -Yesterday she was being harassed by the police – still meaning is same so will really appreciate if you can explain the difference

sumit1

That’s music my ears this lesson, i always have trouble between ”been and being ” but now i see the difference, i also have to pay attention.Thank you Alex

pascal tossou

hi, i would like to thank you but your voice is low i cant hear very well

all the best for you

omar

9/10 Great Job Done by me !!
Alex Was Superb in this chapter !!

Chéts

thanks may teacher fore ever
you are gentelman teacher? i am verty galad thanks

sadaam

what is the difference between :the students had been studying for 5 hours? and :the students were being studying for 5 hours?

rukaya

hi Alex i´m confuse between been and being so if i say I have been to canada it is similar to say I was in canada?

edgar

thank you for this English Lesson I’ve learn a lot from you Sir Alex..Could you teach me for free??i want to be fluent in English..

bessymelai

hi Alex, i m having confusion in this topic i want to ask some questions with you.BEING is used in presentcont.tense and pastcont.tense but sometimes it is also used as a GERUND can u plz tell mee how this is used as a GERUND i m waiting for your reply

abdul karim

Take care…

ikhodam

8/10! thanks a lot!

lcaraujo

Thank you very much

aheebru77

excellent alex

daya

thanks

daya

Thank you very much Alex.This is a real confuse part in English.

maheshs

10/9 got it……

maheshs

NICE LESSON,TEACHER. YOU ARE GREAT.
THANKS.

jose

Hi Alex,
I read a sentence somewhere and I confused about this sentence;”my doctor has been telling me to eat vegetables”
whereas ,I think it is a passive tense and It does not need a subject(my doctor) and my question is why it hasn’t been said “MY doctor has told me …..?
I would appreciated if you answer this question and save my life!(just kidding)
thank you

farshid

are they same same among “stop being so critical” and “stop be so critical”?

and then “the wheater is not being cooperative” and “the wheater is not cooperative”, i think they are the same. Can you explain about that? thx alex.

Ranny

hi alex thanks for the lesson..

how about using the word aren’t i..aren’t you..they they’re and didn’t..pls help me to understand how to use this on my sentence..i’m having problem using that words on my grammar..hoping to hear from your reply soon..thank you teacher..

reahyang11

Alex, this has been a good lesson! Thanks!

corredor66

Being excellent lesson i like it

nichumon786

He has been completed his work,They have been taken all belonging to their personal,For how long you had been that company,Being heavy rain she cuoldnt go library,Being traffic stuck I cuoldnt reach office in time,sorry for being lite,thank you for being that. Here are a few examples is it correct .please reply my dear Alex

nichumon786

10/10..thank u alex!!

faraway28

thank you som much mr.Alex ..It has been a great lesson .

hanody

Hi teacher , What the difference between ” he is/was studying” and “he has/had been studying”

sadeg8

I have learnt being corrctly today.thang you so much

yoga

thank you Alex.But I seem I dont uderstand English

nurjan

8 out of 10(((

Any Russia

ooooh,,,any,,the same with me your point,,,hahahah

nink

tankyou very much it’s very usefull for me, no need to go to the english course i just open my laptop when i have spare time,,and start to study,,thx very much,,,i can understand all your teach,,,

nink

8 out of 10… but not bad…. thnx alex

sadia78

good help

jacqueline

i hope you’ll give advice what is what, thanks in advance,and so:
he is being generous – why don’t just say “he is generous”? or sentence “he is being generous” supposes that he WAS and is(now) a generous one. and “he is generous” considers that he is generous one in general or i know him as a generous one. what is a difference between both?
yesterday, she was being harassed – i understand that it’s passive voice past continuous tense. why don’t we say “she was harassed ” or she has been harassed” , i think so, ’cause it’s perfect tense. it happened already. why do we say this in the past continuous?

shbk

Dear Alex.
Why can’t we say (she has been harassed by the police)what is the diffrence between these two? (she was being harassed) please help me out with this.
thank you

rawhiyah

Hi Alex tank you for help me this matter English lesson. I wanna be speaker fluent with help.
See you next lesson.

Belinassi

Hi Alex, im trying to understand the difference between “learned” and “learnt”. I would like also to know how to use these words gramatically. Please help…many thanks…

coolfresher

Thank a lot for this lesson, Gianni.

gianni14

hello sir,
i have a question to you sir
if a person was assaulted by someone,
can wae say like this
“person assaulted”.
waiting for the reply sir.

jadi narayana

It depends on the rest of the sentence. For example, you could say, “There was a person assaulted downtown last night.” It could also be the headline of a newspaper article.

Alex

hi alex.I’ve had confused with could . would should please as possible as u can explain them back precisly

eltiganyjuma22

GOD BLESS U ALL

karthik

It’s lesson help me to diffrent Being and Been
Thank you very much

Rony

thnk u.but i’ve jus got one confusion whether or not to use i or me ,when saying My friends and I or Me and My friends.plx if u can help me out

jia

Hi Alex,
i really like your lesson ,i had a big confision,but i am being more confident after this hahahaha

satya

I got 9/10

jose

It was very hard for me

Fatima

Hi ALex, when should I have to use Have,Had,Has.

Ahmed

im perfect hehehehehe

raymart

it has been agreat lesson thanke

kaierm123

it has been amazing.thank u

sharif

hello alex
u r doing great job
can you teach lesson on how to use have been and hadd been sentences

rahul jain

Thank you

I have been getting better English.

kafkamania360

hi. can u explain that differents between those sentences.

marks is being generous.

mark is a generous.

guney

In the first example: “Mark is being generous”… is this a passive tense? It has the same structure, yet it has an adjective instead a verb. Thanks.

Angela

hello , sir i from punjab . i want know difference between would should could plazzzz sir help me i m too confused .. give me the answer soon as you can thaxxx

palwinder

Hello Alex: Could you please explain Degrees of certainty:Present Time(negative)and past time: Affirmative and negative.Thank you for everything.
Rocio.

Rocio

thank you Mr.Alex

zufry

this class was bit confusing for me. Still i’m trying to learn. Thankyou Alex for explaning very well

ummsami

Sir please teach us the difference between the words SINCE and FOR

muqeetmma

hi Alex,
Your lecture was interesting.But I still have some doubts.
In the first example of ‘been’,you wrote: he has been to Alaska.I hope here,you used the verb ‘been’ as main verb and ‘has’ as auxiliary verb.here,does the verb ‘been’ mean ‘stayed’ or ‘lived’.
Is this sentence same as ‘he has stayed/lived in alaska’?
[If I use ‘being’ as main verb(in the first example of being),does it mean ‘becoming’].
And one more thing,
Can we use ‘been’ after ‘is’in passive voice?..like ‘It is been good’?.if not why?
and,what is the difference between ‘He was in alaska’ and ‘He has been to alaska’?..I think ‘He has been to Alaska’ simply implies a present effect of past tense,ans is same as saying ‘He has been to alaska atleast once in his life’.Am i right?
Please reply me as early as you can.Because I’m so confused.:)

jish

10/10

sajid

Hi Alex,
Its a nice video to start with.

Could you tell me the difference between “They had been there before” and “They have been there before”.

Mohit

HELLO ,TEACHER I REALLY INTREST IN IT SO,I DON’T KNOW HOW TO THANK TO YOU ,ACHUALLY I AM THE PERSON ,WHO REALLY WANTS TO BE A GOOD AT IN ENGLISH .BEST WISHES FOR YOU,TEACHER.

vishnu

Mr.alex,,thanks for ur explanation,,it was clear..hope u can visit my university and teach us about grammar..dina from indonesia…

dina panjaitan

What’s is the difference between will and shall??

poongkundran

10/10 thanks Alex

mahmud

I scored 10 out of 10. thanks a lot Alex.

Hossou ZOUNFFA

not understood at all

uday

use been after “have, has, had”
use being after verb “to be” —> this “being is the hard thing w/ these two >I’m Filipino

~just starting to enhance my grammar!

Pinoy

Thanks Alex to explain to me ,It’s means= it has .thanks for your help .you’re a great teacher .God bless you .have a great night.takecare

Momndad

Ohhh… now I’m getting it. Thanks! I’ll study more about it.

rodrigomarques

10/10 very good !

todi95

why do u always use “this is Alex” and not “i’m Alex” in the begin of your videos? Sorry for this stupid question… is it a slang? Thanks for your attention!

Bruno Seulight

thank you Alex..<3

rosie

hi alex, it is very nice a study for me..thanks a lot for everything…

zaza

thanks for great lesson but l am little confused about future perfect tense. for example;she will have been accepted by the college at that point. l dont understand if its future, she isnt being accepted by the college yet , right ? if you help me , l’ll be so happy thank you alex

eyup(yupp)

NICE

prospect21

I appreciate your efforts. Great. Thanks Alex.

S Niazi

how to use doah in english?

Rone

nice….

padmarai

Please explain the sentences starting with the word “having”!

iffath

10/10 but i still dont quite get it

hello

Thanks Alex

Angel

Hi
i woant ask you what time can i ues present parfect

MOHSEN

Which word is often used with the progressive/continuous tenses in English?

being
been

can you please explain this point for me.

Student

Got 9/10.

chanchal17

“Being” is the progressive form of “Be.”

Alex

SIR,in passive voice, while we use being there must be helping verbs(am ,is,are,was,were…),then why at certain times we won’t use. eg: carbon monoxide doesn’t react further after being adsorbed.so pls try to clarify.

K.L.RAM

sir,pls make a lecture on complete phonetics and it’s pronunciation

K.L.RAM

ramnayak

You used “being” in that sentence. All passive sentences use “be” in one form or another.

Alex

then i think in that example ,doesn’t is the “be” form . thank u sir.

ramnayak

then i think in that example ,doesn’t is the “be” form . thank u sir.

ramnayak

sir,pls make a lecture on complete phonetics(with practicality)

ramnayak

Thank you very much,for sharing your knowledge it really help me a lot.

belen

hehe ive got 8/10.(being or been) not bad :DD

Pinoy

Im a filipino and just starting to correct my mistaken and confusing bout the right grammar to use! hoping to be fluent as white men w/ this lang.

Pinoy

hi alex……it’s been wonderful experience learning through online by you……i have a question to ask you…..which preposition can we use before the word “road” or “street”…..i asked my teacher few days ago and she said “in” for example we live in grand trunk road but i was not convinced by her answer and still have a doubt because i once saw a movie”nightmare ON ELM street”…..here they have used “ON” with street, so i am kid of confused. plz help me.
thank you.

raghav sahi

Thanks for this lesson

I always have problem using been are being
It is more clearar to me, after the lesson
Ijust need more practice.
You are waderfull…..

Judith

thanks sir it was really good but i still have confusion in being for example we can say also she was harassed by the police yesterday yes or no? thnks in advance

sara

sorry sir just one other question i just wanna know if we use be in present plus being for futur action thnks lot

sara

I didnt understand usage of been and being

rajas

10. It’s _________ a great day.
being
been
In this context, “It’s” means “It has,” and not “it is.” In this case, the verb “be” describes a state that is true (the day HAS BEEN NICE), and not an action.
i dont undersatand that ????????

sami45

thanks

johnaisteph

hi Alex…
can I say “he is becoming generous” instead of “he is being generous”?
thanks.

muis

Genial! Thank you.

RAC

Respect to the quiz, question #10:
1.If the day is over, you can say “it has been a great day”, but
2.If the day is not over yet, you can say “it is being a great day”, because it is not over, and it may still go on being great (it’s something continous, I don’t know how to explain it).
Right?

alane

Great! Thanks!

Marcin

No comment!! It’s best english lesson in the internet.Thanks, EngViD.com

Learn more

I don’t understand this lesson :S:S:

you can repeat this lesson

elkrespo

i am new student of this engvid lesson but i am impress by all of u teacher profemence

rajanghimire

can we download this video on my mobile?

nileshdiwakar

dear sir…….
yet i haven’t understood properly the form of ‘being told’. do you mind explaining it deeply once more sir? plz…………

thusan

dear sir…….
‘he is being bored’ in case of this sentence bored can be considered as a adjective & past participle form of bore therefor how can i understand it?

thusan

90%

bartella

can i say like “We were being government recognized export house company” is this sentence right?

firoj

Would you be able to clear my long time confusion about the usage of word ‘being’?. I understood that word ‘being’ is used in passive form of any continuous action(swimming,dancing etc). but in some cases i noticed that sentence was not passive but still the word ‘being’ comes. For ex: when i look for a word in dictionary let’s say
“Contempt of court” the meaning of which is “the offense of being disobedient to” .
In this case how the word ‘being’ is used?.

Similarly,I came across many sentences contained the word ‘being’ such as being friendly, being ignorant etc. Sorry,I am unable to recollect all the sentences which I seen. But I hope that I have explained enough to let you identify what i am asking for? It would be great help for me if you explain the usage of word ‘being’ in different contexts.

Thanks..

meera511

I am so lost Alex!!! I understood your lesson but when we speak about past, present, perfect progressive, and all that I just..can’t. I pass your quiz but I guess on some of them. What do u recommend? What should I learn first?

jazmin1022

hello alex,
i want to ask why “been” is used in these following sentences:
1.i have been hungry for 4 hrs.
2.they have been shopping four times this week.
3.i have been allured by the fancy things.
4.thousand of painter have tried to creat similer painting but they all have been unsuccessful.
5.this room has been the witness to all the events of my life.

please explain me the neaning of been here. i m waiting for ur reply

rajwinderraj

hello alex sir,
pls reply my question soon .my exam is coming near.i need to know the use of been.pls pls pls
can we use present perfect with verb 3 form likewise the 3 sentence ‘i have been allured by the fancy things”
pls reply fast sir m waiting.

rajwinderraj

until now i cant understand when choice between been or being in the sentences like

have you ever ____________ arrested ??

what does it mean ??
and why we should choice been not being

smsoma

9 out of 10

rama essam

Alex,Is there any difference between the following sentences? Or Do they have the same meaning? ‘Mark is stingy./’ Mark is being stingy.’ You are being helpful and supportive to me.Thanks by heart.

daffodile

Awesome i got 10 correct, thanks to you, Alex

yuli setiawan

Thank you so much 10/10!!!

Areliangel

thank you sir it really helped me a lot..

shiva narayana

Glory to God the Father! I have got a 100.

chisengakunda@rocketmail.com

I don’t undertsand the lesson , please could you explain it again , thank you Alex

salima.a1

of I can not understant this being

nuray44

of I can not understand this being

nuray44

Hi Alex,

Thank you for this lesson. In this phrase I don’t know why we use Had been.”it had been a long trip”
Thank you

mejdoubi

Hi Alex,
thanks for your lesson
take care

cep62

I Got 10 because I’m a fellow teacher from Australia

John…………

Thanks Alex

kambiz.ns

hello…….alex, i got 10 correct out of 10 only because your lesson helped me a lot…thank you.

Rasho

thanks for this lesson, it means a lot to me:

Browncony

I got 9 correct,, thank you so much

Yaz.M

9/10, thank you for your lesson.
I think “being” is more difficult to use than “been”.

Koichi

I have had a good lesson, I got 90 on the quiz ,I am being smart.

Thank you for this lesson.

Aangel

Why did you pass the last sentenc’s explanation..? so, sad.

kyungkook park

Great lesson .. I have got 8 correct

aboood1994

100

heshamosama

good lesson, i improve my english day after day

moezbesbes

the firts time i got 9 out of 10 . it´s being very useful for me. Good lesson, thank alex . i am interested on watching your videos .

marleny

Easy to understand, not easy to use.

mark971

its been a great lesson for me thank you

suman6

Nice lesson… The sound was a little low…..

Perlamar

Why i am not access after 2 question. I tried almost 10 times but yet unsuccessful. I become hopless. Please give me solution.

Amjad Raza

Thank you!

Nao Tsuboya

YAY without even watching this lesson, i got 10 out of 10.
Great side with great cause, I must say you guys are doing great job for language students, i have been learning so much from here. God bless all teachers in the world specially Engvid tutors!

BaderHussain1

My name Pheap IR, and today I am studying at PUC in Cambodia. I’m always research all lessons in website. At the end, I have found this website: engvid.com. I’m very interested, I would like to read the book.so can you tell me what kind of books in order to improve my English language?

Pheap IR

9/10

ratha.yi

wow i got 100 yehey

francyn10

It has not been so bad

bundersvaguen

Thanks fot this video I learned a lot!!!

henriquesantos

9/10 thanks Alex.

Tammyjang1

thank you so much Alex in your tutorial it`s help me a lot to know how to use being and been ^_^
anybody here that want to talk other people to practice his/her english

Reamder

(9/10) is my score in this short quiz haha

Reamder

thank you, Alex! This lesson is very useful!

fabiuspictor

I was strongly confuse with both of them, but not anymore! thank you Alex! (and the guy who asked for it) lol

NOA1991

Thank you Alex, this leasson clarified the difference of “being” and “been”.

Jhow

Teacher I have difficult for have been or have to ever

milenizar1

I got 8/10! Good!

robi75

Mister Been XD

Lorcy Gabriel

Thank’s Alex

kheireddine007

i got 2 ques

1-what’s the difference between “he is generous”and “he is being generous”
2-what’s the difference between “she has been to alaska” nad “she was being to alaska “

aliziaei

Is it possible that the 10ª question has two correct answers? For example: “Hey,this day is being very great, isn’t? “Oh, of course, it’s being a great day!”

Marcio07

thanks！

shihai182

Thanks Alex for your video. I’m still confused with the meaning of “being” in a present tense. For ex, He is being generous. That means that he did something generousely. The action is accomplished. But we are using a present form. We speak about smth that has already happened. Can you explain that please? Good luck, i’m your fun))

Dragonmother

9/10 correct Thank you so much Alex

@Joanna@

Thanks Alex, it was great. I have been learnt a lot

Sayed Saber Samim

I watched this video twice on May 21, 2021, and I took the quiz after watching it once. I got nine correct out of 10.

ergn

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I have heard usage of “been” other that in perfect continuous tense.

like when we are talking about past, could we say that “I been given some work”?

Is the above sentence correct? if not why?

But, this sentence convince me, because it is the situation in which I am talking about past and some thing happened on me, so in order to say that I need to use forms of “be”, but I cannot say in perfect form because “have ” and “had” is not form of “be”, but if I use “have been” or “had been” then it will be in perfect continuous, again I don’t want to add continuous sense to it, it should be in perfect with 3rd form of verb.

Am I correct?

Answer

No, that sentence is absolutely incorrect. Grammatically, you should follow the pattern to have been [past participle]. If the action took place before some reference point in the past, use the past perfect tense: I had been given some work to do. If the action took place in the past but with a connection to the present moment, use the present perfect tense: I have been given some work to do. There’s no ifs or buts. That’s how English grammar works.

However, if you start watching a lot of American movies, one day you will hear someone say I done it! or something to that effect. That’s actually incorrect and the only time you’ll ever hear this said is from a country person or a street tough using nonstandard English grammar.

If you insist on using a past form of the to be verb, use was:

I was given some work to do.

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Source : Link , Question Author : Rahul , Answer Author : Michael Rybkin

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«I BIN graduated.»

(Harris 2013)

Stressed BIN refers to the use of the word been, pronounced BIN, in African American English to indicate that an event occurred in the remote past (or has been occurring since the remote past). For example, the sentence in (1) means «I started my paper a long time ago, Mom, so quit asking me,» and the sentence in (2) means «I have been treating them like that for a long time and still am»:

1) I BIN started my paper Ma, so quit asking me.

2) I BIN treating ‘em like that.
(Rickford 1975, Detroit)

The word BIN is capitalized in linguistic example sentences to express the fact that it is stressed.

Who says this?

Stressed BIN has been identified as one of the characteristic markers which distinguish African American English from other varieties. As African American English is spoken around the country, this phenomenon has a wide distribution.

Differences from BEEN

At first glance, stressed BIN may look to many English speakers like a variant of stressed BEEN in Standard American English. For example, (3b) and (3c), both of which are responses to (3a), seem quite similar, as seen by the fact that their paraphrases in quotes are identical:

3) a. Is she at work?

b. Yea, she BIN at work.
‘Yes, she is at work and has been for a long time.’
(African American English; Dayton 1996)

c. Yeah she’s BEEN at work.
‘Yes, she is at work and has been for a long time.’
(Standard American English)

While there is clearly a historical connection between stressed BIN in African American English and stressed BEEN in Standard American English, the two are actually very different today. The most striking difference is that stressed BIN can be used in past and past perfect sentences that do not correspond to uses of stressed BEEN in Standard American English. For example, the sentences in (4a) and (5a) are impossible for speakers of Standard American English, whereas the sentences in (4b) and (5b) are possible for speakers of African American English:

4) a. *I’ve BEEN understood that part. I’m confused by the last part.
(Standard American English)

b. I BIN got that part. I’m confused by the last part.
‘I understood that part a long time ago.’
(African American English)

5) a. *I BEEN shot the bird.
(Standard American English)

b. I BIN shot the bird.
‘I shot the bird a long time ago.’
(African American English)

Syntactic Properties

Classification

Stressed BIN is referred to in the linguistics literature as a remote past marker (Labov 1972), a remote stative(Dayton 1996) and a remote universal perfect marker (Labov 1998). Harris (2013) classifies it as an obligatorily stressed remote perfect marker.

Often with verbs, but not always

BIN occurs with nonverbal predicates, both nouns as in (6) and adjectives as in (7) (in addition to verbal predicates as seen already in (1) and (2) above):

6) He BIN a preacher.
‘He has been a preacher for a long time and still is.’
(Rickford 1975)

7) Grandma BIN sleep.
‘Grandma has been asleep for a long time and still is.’

According to Dayton (1996), BIN is most commonly found with, and is preferred with, verbal predicates.

Verbs: perfect or progressive

In verbal predicates, BIN precedes the progressive form, indicating that the action started a long time ago and is still going on at the present time, as in (8), or the perfect form, indicating the action was completed a long time ago in the past, as in (9):

Fox BIN criticizing Obama.
‘Fox News has been criticizing Obama for a long time (and still is).’

9) I BIN seen it.
‘I saw it a long time ago.’

Note that in African American English, as in some other dialects of English, the past tense form of the verb is generally the same as the perfect form. In most cases, it is the past tense form of the verb in standard varieties that corresponds to the past/perfect form in African American English.

BIN is not an auxiliary

While stressed BIN may, in some cases, seem like it is standing in for an auxiliary like have, it does not actually have the syntactic behavior of an auxiliary. For example, it may not move to the left of the subject to form a yes-no question, as shown by the unacceptability of (10), or a tag question, as shown by the unacceptability of (11):

10) *BIN John and Lisa dating?
intended: ‘Have John and Lisa been dating for a long time?’
(Green 1994)

11) *She BIN married, binn’t she?
intended: ‘She’s been married for a long time, hasn’t she?’

In addition, unlike have, stressed BIN may not occur with sentence-level negation, as shown in (12):

12) * John and Lisa BIN not dating.
intended: ‘John and Lisa have not been dating for a long time. They only recently started dating.’
(Green 1994)

No questions

As already shown in (10), stressed BIN cannot move to the left of the auxiliary to form a yes-no question, and furthermore stressed BIN doesn’t really occur with questions at all. The only way in which a sentence containing stressed BIN can be made into a question is by making a statement and following it with something like, «right?» This is illustrated in (13a), whereas (13b) is an example of a sentence that is ungrammatical because it employs the usual syntax of questions, which is not compatible with stressed BIN:

13) a. John and Mary BIN dating, right?

b. *Do John and Mary BIN dating?

Restrictions with temporal adverbials

Stressed BIN interacts with temporal adverbials (that is, adverbials specifying time), such as three weeks ago or for five minutes. Expressions that pick out an exact time, such as three weeks ago, are judged as unacceptable, as illustrated in (14):

14) *I BIN asked him bout that 3 weeks ago.
intended: ‘I asked him about that a long time ago three weeks ago.’

Expressions that describe the duration of time, such as for five minutes, are allowed but cannot describe the duration of the event itself. For example, (15a) and (15b) are the same sentence, but this sentence can only have the meaning in (15a), not the meaning in (15b):

15) a. I BIN running for 5 minutes.
‘Starting five minutes ago, I have long been in the habit of running.’

b. I BIN running for 5 minutes.
*’I have been running for five minutes.’

That is, I BIN running for 5 minutes cannot be used to say that the running has been going on for five minutes. To the extent that it is possible, it only has the somewhat odd meaning that my long-time habit of running started five minutes ago.

Nothing focused

Sentences with stressed BIN cannot contain a focused noun phrase. While is natural to say things like JOHN is dating Lisa to put focus on John (as in It is John that is dating Lisa), this is not possible with stressed BIN, as shown by the unacceptability of (16):

16) * JOHN BIN dating Lisa.
intended: ‘It is John that has been dating Lisa for a long time.’

Page contributed by Alysia Harris and Jim Wood on April 17, 2013

Updates/revisions: August 23, 2015 (Tom McCoy); June 27, 2018 (Katie Martin)

Please cite this page as: Harris, Alysia and Jim Wood. 2013. Stressed BIN. Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America. (Available online at http://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/stressed-bin. Accessed on YYYY-MM-DD). Updated by Tom McCoy (2015) and Katie Martin (2018).

References

Phenomenon Dialect:

African American (Vernacular) English

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Examples of been

been

Originals of figures should not be sent until the paper has been accepted.

They may have been a movie, but a movie about what?

In circumstances where effectiveness has not been proven, then the usual treatment, which is the most widely used treatment, should be used.

Six diverse trials of potentially universal postnatal interventions have been reported.

In the past, there has been no evidence of the cost-effectiveness of treatment.

However, examples exist of programs for both adults and children that have been successful, at least in the short term.

They have not always been seen in this light.

There has been no systematic study of the optimal conditions for facilitation.

This difference has also been found in other vertebrate systems.

Many factors have been reported to be responsible.

Other cell types have been much more difficult to study because they are relatively rare and difficult to identify in living preparations.

In modern times, too, quantification has been as closely tied to administration as to science.

But it had no tradition of doing this, because in the past there had never been any need.

It holds that it is never permitted to pay for an object x, if x could have been obtained for free.

Although many countries are planning to privatise, there has been little research into the effects of water privatisation.

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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Словоупотребление (word usage [wɔ:rd ˈju:zɪdʒ]) — правила и закономерности выбора и употребления слов в высказывании, основанные на устоявшихся нормах и эффективности передачи смыслового содержания.

Употребление некоторых слов и устойчивых выражений тесно переплетается с грамматикой языка, поэтому некоторые статьи из раздела по грамматике английского продублированы в данном разделе.

Если не указано иное, содержание ESL.Wiki предоставляется на условиях лицензии «Creative Commons «Attribution-ShareAlike» (Атрибуция — На тех же условиях) 4.0 Всемирная» (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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употребление, обычай, обращение, обиход, словоупотребление, обыкновение

существительное ↓

- обращение

rough [good] usage — грубое [хорошее] обращение

- употребление, применение, использование

in accordance with the general usage — согласно общепринятой практике

- узус, обычное употребление (слов, выражений и т. п.)

of current usage — общеупотребительный
expression that has come into usage — выражение, вошедшее в употребление
a new meaning sanctioned by usage — новое значение (слова), санкционированное узусом /употребительностью/

- обычай, обыкновение

ancient usage — старинный обычай
sanctified by usage — освящённый обычаем

- юр. торговый обычай

usage of trade — торговый обычай, узанс, узанция

Мои примеры

Словосочетания

a book on modern English usage — книга о современном словоупотреблении в английском языке
a book on the ABCs of computer usage — книга, посвящённая основам работы с компьютером
immemorial usage — обычай, существующий с незапамятных времён
established usage — сложившаяся традиция
barbarous usage — грубое обращение
drug usage — употребление наркотика
in general usage — общеупотребительный
key usage control — контроль применения ключей
law and usage of Parliament — парламентский обычай
exclusive usage mode — монопольный режим использования
usage mode — режим использования
usage period — продолжительность использования

Примеры с переводом

Water usage is increasing.

Потребление воды увеличивается.

This word occurs in casual usage.

Это слово встречается в повседневном использовании.

English usage

использование выражений английского языка

I came across an uncommon usage I’d like to discuss with you.

Мне встретилось необычное выражение, которое я хотел бы с вами обсудить.

‘Ladened’ is not current usage.

Сейчас слово «ladened» (гружёный) больше не употребляется.

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Seat belt usage in the state is now mandatory.

Restaurant dishes must be able to withstand rough usage.

This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect

…reactionary guardians of proper English usage invariably regard every new coinage that comes along as a nonword…

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.

Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): usage
мн. ч.(plural): usages

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