Third-person singular form of behear; he or she hears about or learns by hearing something.
From behear with third-person singular ending '-s'. Follows the standard pattern of early English verb conjugation before the simplification of English morphology.
This word shows how English used to have much more complex verb endings—modern English has almost completely stripped away these suffixes, making 'he hears' simpler than 'he behears,' demonstrating language evolution toward simplicity.
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