there's

See also: theres and Theres

English

Alternative forms

• dere's, der's, dar's (pronunciation spellings)

Pronunciation

• (General American)
  • (weak form) IPA^(key): /ðəɹz/
  • (strong form) IPA^(key): /ðɛəɹz/, /ðɛɹz/

  • Audio; /ðɛəɹz/:

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• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (weak form) IPA^(key): /ðəz/
  • (strong form) IPA^(key): /ðɛəz/, [ðɛːz]
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ðeːz/
• (New Zealand)
  • (cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ðiəz/
  • (without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ðeəz/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ðeɹz/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ðɜː(ɹ)z/
• Homophone: theirs
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z

Contraction

there's

1. Contraction of there is.

   There's no arguing with him... or with her for that matter.

2. (nonstandard) Contraction of there are.

   There’s some chairs in the garage, aren’t there?

   • 1971 October 11, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, “Imagine”, Imagine, Apple Records:

     Imagine there’s no countries.

   • 2024 July 26, Fireship, “Am I going to jail for web scraping?”, in YouTube‎^[1]:

     There's only two types of people in this world: the conformist API consumer and the renegade web scraper.

3. Contraction of there +‎ has.

   There’s been an accident!

4. (proscribed) Contraction of there +‎ was.

   Yesterday, there's an accident.

5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (colloquial) Contraction of there +‎ does.

Anagrams

• Ehrets, Esther, Hester, ethers, threes