(a) (with description, opinion) to be; je suis... I'm..., I am... (frm or emphatic); tu es..., (Infml) t'es..., (frm or when addressing more than one person) vous êtes... you're..., you are... (frm or emphatic); il est... he's..., he is... (frm or emphatic); elle est... she's, she is... (frm or emphatic); on est..., (frm) nous sommes... we're..., we are... (frm or emphatic); ils sont..., elles sont... they are...; je suis grand I'm tall; elle est grande she's tall; elle est grande, ta voiture, (Infml) c'est grand, ta voiture it's a big car you've got, your car's (pretty) big

(b) (describing location) to be; (of person: more permanently) to be, live, be based; Paris est tout près d'ici Paris is really close by; je ne suis pas là lundi I'm not here on Monday; je suis à Paris en ce moment I'm in Paris at the moment; je suis à Paris maintenant I'm (based) in Paris now, I live in Paris now, I've moved to Paris

(c) (with professions: often used without article in French) to be; je suis professeur I'm a teacher; il est programmeur he's a programmer; il veut ~ programmeur he wants to be a programmer; c'est un très bon programmeur he's a very good programmer; vous êtes (un) programmeur aussi? are you a programmer too (or) as well?

(a) (slightly Infml: avoir été = être allé) j'ai été à Paris (with relevance to now) I've been to Paris; (as simple completed event) I went to Paris; ça a été? (referring to holiday) was it OK?, was it all right?, did it go OK?; (referring to meal) ça a été, Monsieur? was everything OK with your meal?

(b) (usually literary: in sense of exist) to be; je pense donc je suis I think therefore I am; il n'est plus he is no more; il était une fois une princesse once upon a time, there was a princess; que la lumière soit let there be light

(a) (with compound tenses such as the perfect tense of certain verbs) être allé/venu to have been/come; je suis allé à Paris l'an dernier I went to Paris last year; je suis né en 1976 I was born in 1976

(b) (with passive) to be; ~ fabriqué aux États-Unis to be manufactured in the US; je ne suis pas persuadé par son point de vue I am not convinced by his point of view; il a été blessé dans un accident de voiture he's been injured in a car crash; j'ai été très choqué par ses remarques I was very shocked by his remarks

(a) being; ~ humain human being; ~ vivant animate being

(b) (more fig) person, human being; les ~s qui nous sont chers our loved ones

(c) (fig) heart, soul; aimer qn de tout son ~ to love sb with all one's heart

(d) (Philosophy) l'~ being; l'~ et le néant being and nothingness; l'Être suprême the Supreme Being