there's

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

• (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]
• (General Australian) 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

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.

• Ehrets, Esther, Hester, ethers, threes