être
verbcommon noun
Syllable Decomposition
êtrefrom Old French estre (être), from Vulgar Latin essĕre ('to be'), a reworked form by analogy of Classical Latin esse ('to be'), as well as from Old French ester, from Latin sto ('to stand'). The latter only remains in the participles été, étant and the conjugations of the imperfect indicative, as well as in the now obsolete expressions ester en justice or ester en jugement.
Definitions
Conjugation
→ Conjugation of "être"Plural
Translations
german:Wesen
english:being
spanish:ser
finnish:-iö
italian:essere
japanese:存在
dutch:wezen
swedish:väsen