Definition of 'here'
1. adverb [be ADVERB, ADVERB after verb]
You use here when you are referring to the place where you are.
I'm here all by myself and I know I'm going to get lost.
Well, I can't stand here chatting all day.
...the growing number of skiers that come here.
Sheila was in here a minute ago.
My name is Roseanne and I'm in here for shoplifting.
I'm not going to stay here. I'm out of here, back down to San Diego.
When Mommy comes, just tell her I'm up here.
2. adverb [ADVERB after verb, be ADVERB]
You use here when you are pointing towards a place that is near you, in order to draw someone else's attention to it.
...if you will just sign here.
Come and sit here, Lauren.
'From there, pulling a line to here,' he said, making invisible drawings in the air.
'It's on the right-hand side of the shopping centre.'—'Okay. Fine.'—'Oh it's here.'
3. adverb [noun ADVERB, ADVERB after verb]
4. adverb [noun ADVERB, ADVERB after verb]
5. adverb
I'm here to help you.
I'm not here to listen to your complaints.
6. adverb [ADV with be, ADVERB before verb]
You use here in order to draw attention to something or someone who has just arrived in the place where you are, or to draw attention to the place you have just arrived
at.
'Here's the taxi,' she said politely.
'Mr Cummings is here,' she said, holding the door open.
Here comes your husband.
'Okay, here we are,' she said, and inserted her key in the lock.
Here's my apartment.
7. adverb [ADVERB with verb]
You use here to refer to a particular point or stage of a situation or subject that you have come to or that you are dealing with.
Both sides will have to sell the agreement. It's here that the real test will come.
It's here that we come up against the difference of approach.
The book goes into recent work in greater detail than I have attempted here.
Here I think it is appropriate to draw your attention to one specific feature.
8. adverb [ADVERB before verb, ADV with be]
9. adverb
10. adverb
You use here when you are offering or giving something to someone.
Here's your coffee, just the way you like it.
Here's my card. You know where to find me.
Here's some letters I want you to sign.
Here's your cash.
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adverb
1.
we come here every summer
here, the policemen do not usually carry guns
here comes Roy
3. here goes
4. here's to
8. this here
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Word origin of 'here'
exclamation
South Africa
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Word origin of 'here'
adverb
1.
at or in this place
often used as an intensive [John here is a good player]: in dialectal or nonstandard use, often placed between a demonstrative pronoun and
the noun it modifies [this here man ]4.
on earth; in earthly life
interjection
6.
noun
7.
this place or point
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Then the President named Australia - he thought I had certain talents, connections, that would work out here. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002)I just, I don't know, I felt she wasn't entirely a stranger here. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002)She went to lunch with your wife and your wife told her she'd been here on a quick business trip some years ago. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002)
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Translations for 'here'
- American English: here
- Arabic: هُنَا
- Brazilian Portuguese: aqui
- Chinese: 在这里
- Croatian: ovdje
- Czech: tady
- Danish: her
- Dutch: hier
- European Spanish: aquí
- Finnish: tässä
- French: ici
- German: hier
- Greek: εδώ
- Italian: qui
- Japanese: ここに
- Korean: 여기에
- Norwegian: her
- Polish: tutaj
- European Portuguese: aqui
- Romanian: aici
- Russian: здесь
- Spanish: aquí
- Swedish: här
- Thai: ที่นี่
- Turkish: burada
- Ukrainian: тут
- Vietnamese: ở đây
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