Here's

How to spell here's

5 letters · 1 syllable

How to pronounce here's

What does here's mean?

1. otherA contraction of 'here is', used to point out or present something.

Here's in a sentence

• Here's the report you asked me to finish before the meeting.

• Here's a quick summary of what the team decided yesterday.

Where does here's come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is a contraction of 'here is', stitching together two very old native English words. 'Here' descends from Old English 'her', meaning 'in or at this place', a word shared across the Germanic family and related to the root that also gave us 'he'. The little apostrophe-s ending stands for the verb 'is', which goes back to Old English 'is' and ultimately to the same ancient root that produced Latin 'est' and the Sanskrit verb 'asti', all meaning 'is'. Written contractions like this became common in English from the 1600s onward, with the apostrophe marking the dropped letter of 'is'. The spelling trap is purely that apostrophe: it must sit before the s, and the result sounds identical to the unrelated verb 'hears', which is why careful writers double-check which one they mean.

How the word is built

• here (in this place)
• 's (contracted is)