Question

What does it mean that “am” is the first person singular present indicative of “be”? What is the definition of “am”?

Answer 1

Hint: In the present tense of be, am is the first person singular. In spoken English, am is often abbreviated as 'm. First-person pronouns include we, us, our, and ourselves. They're plural first-person pronouns, specifically. I, me, my, mine, and myself are singular first-person pronouns.

Complete answer:
The "infinitive" is used to express the basic form of a verb, such as "to do", "to make", "to drive", and so on.
When a verb is used in a sentence, it is changed to show when the "action" occurred and who "performed the action."
There are three easy ways to say "when" an action occurred:
The Past, Present, and Future
"Subject" is made up of two parts:
"Person" refers to a person's relationship to the speaker.
"number" can be used in either singular or plural form.
The subject in English may be:

	First-person	Second person	Third-person
singular	I	you	She, he, it
plural	We	you	they

“to be” is an irregular verb.
This means it doesn't follow the most traditional trends for forming verb agreements with the words "when" and "subject."

To be	usage
past
-first	I was
-second	You were
-third	It was
present
-past	I am
-second	You are
-third	It is
future
-first	I will be
-second	You will be
-third	It will be

As can be seen from the examples above, if we want to use the verb to be to convey the first person's current state, we should use the version: am.

Note:
- The verb -to-be has three basic present forms: is, am, and are.
- They're used to describe something or someone's current state, feeling, or condition. As a result, is, am, and are connecting the topic to what is being said about it. Example: He is talented.