Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

there had been

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.83 in modern English

Syllables
there had been
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

past perfect of there be

Inflected Forms

there'd been (alternative)

Questions

What does there had been mean?
past perfect of there be

How to pronounce there had been

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