exist

English

Etymology

From Latin existō (“to stand forth, come forth, arise, be”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”), caus. of stare (“to stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist.

Pronunciation

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Verb

exist (third-person singular simple present exists, present participle existing, simple past and past participle existed)

1. to be; have existence; have being or reality

Synonyms

• be

Derived terms

• existence
• existent
• existential
• existentialist
• existentialism
• existentially

Related terms

• coexist
• coexistence
• preexist
• preexistence

Translations

to be

Afrikaans: bestaan Arabic: عاش (ar) (3aasha) Armenian: գոյություն ունենալ (hy) (goyut’yun unenal), լինել (hy) (linel) Belarusian: існаваць (be) (isnavác') Bulgarian: съществувам (bg) (sǎštestvuvam) Catalan: existir (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 存在 (cmn) (cúnzài) Croatian: póstojati (hr), egzistírati (hr), òpstojati (hr), bȉvstvovati (hr) Czech: být (cs), existovat (cs) Danish: eksistere (da) Dutch: bestaan (nl) Esperanto: ekzisti (eo) Finnish: olla (fi), olla olemassa (fi) French: exister (fr) German: bestehen (de), existieren (de) Greek: υπάρχω (el) (ypárcho), υφίσταμαι (el) (yfístamai)

Hungarian: van (hu), létezik (hu), él (hu) Interlingua: exister (ia) Italian: esistere (it) Japanese: 存在する (ja) (そんざいする, sonzaí-surú) Korean: 존재하다 (ko) (jonjae-hada) (存在 (ko) (존재, jonjae) + 하다 (ko) (hada)) Latin: existere (la), exsistere (la), sum (la), exsto (la), consto (la), exto (la) Norwegian: eksistere (no) Polish: istnieć (pl), egzystować (pl) Portuguese: existir (pt) Russian: существовать (ru) (suščestvovát') Scots: exeest Spanish: existir (es) Swedish: existera (sv) Turkish: varoluş (tr) Ukrainian: існувати (uk) (isnuváty) Vietnamese: tồn tại (vi) (存在 (vi))

External links

• exist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• exist in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• exits
• sixte

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [eɡˈzist]

Verb

exist

1. first-person singular present tense form of exista. I exist
2. first-person singular subjunctive form of exista.