iz
/ˈɪz/
iz is the third-person singular simple present indicative of be.
iz is the eye dialect spelling of us.
Meaning of be
Verb
be (highly irregular—See conjugation table)
- Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
- The dog was saved by the boy.
- Used with present participles of verbs to form the continuous aspect.
- The woman is walking.
- Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
- I am to leave tomorrow.
- Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
- He is finished.
- To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- Women be shoppin’! You cannot stop a woman from shoppin’!1996, David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein, Tom Shadyac and Steve Oedekerk, screenplay of The Nutty Professor
- To exist.
- There is just one woman in town who can help us.
Meaning of us
Pronoun
us (personal pronoun; the objective case of we)
- Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)
- Don't treat us like idiots.
- Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)
- Let's ask him if he'll give us a lift.
- We, used in the same circumstances where “me” would be used instead of “I”, e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula
- Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.
- Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
- It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us.
- People in general.
- Grief ages us.
- The person(s) being addressed.
- Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's get us up and out of bed, please.
Noun capitalized: IZ
IZ (uncountable)
- Initialism of inclusionary zoning.
Proper noun capitalized: Iz
Iz
- A diminutive of the female given name Isabel.
Origin of iz
Eye dialect spelling of is.
Respelling.
Words that rhyme with iz
Questions about iz
- What does iz mean?
- Iz means a diminutive of the female given name Isabel.
- What is iz the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Iz is the third-person singular simple present indicative of be.
- What part of speech is iz?
- Iz can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce iz?
- Iz is pronounced /ˈɪz/.
Words near iz in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: iz (page history and authors); IZ (page history and authors); Iz (page history and authors); be (page history and authors); us (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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