être in a sentence

For example, French être can be used to express passive voice similarly to English be, and both French être and German sein are used to express the perfect forms of certain verbs: ::Je suis arrivé.

The escalation of tensions proved Isaias's depiction of Ethiopia as an existential threat which remains the raison d'être of an independent Eritrean state.

Our raison d'être is to ensure a societal agreement that at least part of the media doesn't just focus on what attracts viewers and clicks, but also covers topics that commercial media doesn't deem important.

The waiting room at the Centre Médical Mieux-Être on Henri Bourassa Boulevard on Feb. 25. The person was there between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Carb loading is Eataly’s raison d’être.

London theatre, the flagship of the UK’s £10.8bn arts sector, was hit punishingly hard by Lockdown 1; its revenue streams and its raison d’être — liveness — cut off, its infrastructure financially draining, its mostly freelance workforce hung out to dry.

This is, in a word, a very different U.S. administration, but in the same hands of the military-industrial complex, of the national security state, of all the people who want warfare to be the raison d’être of this empire at the same time.

The raison d'être of this segment is primarily to provide MPs with news on innovative ways of solving problems that confront citizenson a daily basis elsewhere in Africa.

This is raison d’être of vitamin consumption: to be a little sturdier.

Wolter himself has the internet presence of my 90 year old grandmother, but FLG’s web site has kindly provided his raison d’être (as far as Amyris is concerned): he is only two degrees of separation from John Doerr.

The "non-state armed actors" - to use the jargon of conflict analysis - behind this violence are many in number and raison d'être, while alliances and splits come and go.

War fatigue and the human cost of the Syrian war has not changed Hizbollah’s raison d’être of seeking Israel’s annihilation.

Concerning the selection of avoir or être as the auxiliary verb to form perfect tense/aspect in French, see Rowlett (2007:40f.).

Corning has been described as shortsighted with respect to use of the waterfront, as he could have used his influence to change the location of I-787, which now cuts the city off from "its whole raison d'être".

For example, some adverbial expressions placed at the beginning of a sentence trigger inversion of pronominal subjects: Peut-être est-elle partie (Maybe she has left).

For most main verbs the auxiliary is (the appropriate form of) avoir ("to have"), but for reflexive verbs and certain intransitive verbs the auxiliary is a form of être ("to be").

Forms of être are also used with the past participles of transitive verbs to form the passive voice.

Furthermore, Stockholm's raison d'être always was to be the Swedish capital and by far the largest city in the country, and, consequently, retelling the story of the city without including some of the history of Sweden is virtually impossible.

He also believed that the raison d'être of the universe was the development of the human spirit.

He argues that the raison d'être of language is meaning in social life, and for this reason all languages have three kinds of semantic components.