Many languages form existential clauses without any particular marker, simply using forms of the normal copula verb (the equivalent of English "be"), the subject being the noun (phrase) referring to the thing whose existence is asserted. For example, in Finnish, the sentence , meaning "There are boys in the yard", is literally "On the yard is boys". Some languages have a different verb for this purpose, e.g. Swedish , as in , which is literally "It is found boys on the yard". On the other hand, some languages do not require a copula at all, and sentences analogous to "In the yard boys" are used. Some languages use the verb "have", e.g. Serbo-Croatian, as in , which is literally "In the yard has boys".