être
verbcommon noun
Syllable Decomposition
êtrefrom Old French estre (to be), from Vulgar Latin essĕre (to be), a reworked form by analogy of the 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
- auxiliaire
- auxiliaire
Conjugation
→ Conjugation of "être"Translations
german:sein
english:be
arabic:يكون
chinese:被
korean:당하다
danish:være
spanish:estar
finnish:olla
greek:είμαι
hindi:होना
italian:stare
japanese:られる
dutch:zijn
polish:być
portuguese:achar-se
russian:быть
swedish:finnas
turkish:olmak
ukrainian:бути
See also
serions (v.) seriez (v.) fusses (v.) êtes (v.) Soyons (pn.) fussè (v.) sera (v.) es (v.) St (pn.) fut (v.) étant (v.) Serez (pn.) était (v.) fus (v.) fussent (v.) fussions (v.) fussiez (v.) fûtes (v.) furent (v.) sont (v.)