English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
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 [edit]
exist (third-person singular simple present exists, present participle existing, simple past and past participle existed)
- to be; have existence; have being or reality
- There is no evidence that souls exist.
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to be
- Afrikaans: bestaan (af)
- Arabic: عاش (ar) (3āsha)
- Armenian: գոյություն ունենալ (hy) (goyut’yun unenal) , լինել (hy) (linel)
- Asturian: esistir (ast), existir (ast)
- Belarusian: існаваць (be) (isnavác')
- Bulgarian: съществувам (bg) (sǎštestvuvam)
- Catalan: existir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 存在 (cmn) (cúnzài)
- Czech: být (cs), existovat (cs)
- Danish: eksistere (da)
- Dutch: bestaan (nl)
- Esperanto: ekzisti (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: vera (fo), vera til (fo), finnast (fo)
- Finnish: olla (fi), olla olemassa (fi)
- French: exister (fr)
- Galician: existir (gl)
- German: bestehen (de), existieren (de)
- Greek: υπάρχω (el) (ypárcho) , υφίσταμαι (el) (yfístamai)
- Hungarian: van (hu), létezik (hu), él (hu)
- Interlingua: exister (ia)
- Irish: bí ann (ga)
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- Italian: esistere (it)
- Japanese: 存在する (ja) (そんざいする, sonzaí-surú)
- Khmer: មាន (km) (mien)
- 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)
- Quechua: kay (qu)
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: существовать (ru) (suščestvovát')
- Scots: exeest
- Serbo-Croatian: póstojati (sh), egzistírati (sh), òpstojati (sh), bȉvstvovati (sh)
- Spanish: existir (es)
- Swedish: existera (sv)
- Turkish: varoluş (tr)
- Ukrainian: існувати (uk) (isnuváty)
- Vietnamese: tồn tại (vi) (存在 (vi))
- Volapük: dabinön (vo)
- Welsh: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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Pronunciation [edit]
exist
- first-person singular present tense form of exista. I exist
- first-person singular subjunctive form of exista.
