there're

there're

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈðɛəˌɹə(ɹ)/, /ˌðəɹə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈðɛɹɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ)

Contraction

there're

  1. (colloquial) Contraction of there are.
    • 1974, Philip Freund, “Charles IV”, in More Off-Broadway Plays, page 34:
      No, my prince. It's less than truthful. There are princes among men. There're men endowed with a special quality. It’s a quality for which they are loved—it may be by those who scarcely know them. As you were loved in Navarre.
    • 1988, Hillary Waugh, A Death in a Town, page 166:
      There're a few blacks and Hispanics in town, but you somehow don't notice them.

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