there's

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

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (stressed form) IPA^(key): /ðɛəz/, /ðɛːz/
  • (unstressed form) IPA^(key): /ðəz/
• (General American)
  • (stressed form) IPA^(key): /ðɛəɹz/, /ðɛɹz/
  • (unstressed form) IPA^(key): /ðəɹz/

  • Audio (General American, stressed form); /ðɛəɹz/:

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ðeːz/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ðiəz/
• (New Zealand, 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 a strange guy over there.

   There’s far too much attention being paid to it.

   I've made up my mind; there's no arguing with me.

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. (colloquial) Contraction of there was.
5. (colloquial) Contraction of there does.

• In some respects, sense 2 is not a distinct sense; some speakers use "there is" even where Standard English would require "there are", and "there's" may therefore be seen as a contraction of "there is" even in such cases. However, it is listed separately here because there are many speakers who do distinguish "there is" from "there are" when not using the contraction, but who use the contraction "there's" in all cases; thus, these speakers may be said to use "there's" as a general contraction for both "there is" and "there are".

• Ehrets, Esther, Hester, ethers, threes