come into being

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

come into being (third-person singular simple present comes into being, present participle coming into being, simple past came into being, past participle come into being)

1. (idiomatic) To form; to start to exist.

   Sociologists would like to study how this phenomenon came into being.

Synonyms

• appear, form, materialize, take shape; see also Thesaurus:come into being

Translations

start to exist

• Azerbaijani: törəmək (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 形成 (zh) (xíngchéng), 產生／产生 (zh) (chǎnshēng), 产生 (zh) (chǎnshēng), 誕生／诞生 (zh) (dànshēng), 诞生 (zh) (dànshēng)

• Finnish: saada alkunsa, syntyä (fi)
• French: apparaître (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: entstehen (de)
• Portuguese: surgir (pt)
• Russian: возника́ть (ru) impf (voznikátʹ), возни́кнуть (ru) pf (vozníknutʹ)
• Tok Pisin: kamap