esser

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See also: Esser, ésser, èsser, and èssér

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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esser (first-person singular present esso, first-person singular preterite essí, past participle essut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

  1. (regional) Alternative form of ésser

Interlingua

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Etymology

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From Latin sum (French être, Italian essere, Portuguese ser, and Spanish ser).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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esser

  1. to be
    • 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:
      Le anno passate 46 milliones statouniteses esseva povre.
      Last year 46 million U.S. Americans were poor.

Conjugation

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  • This conjugation also has present plural son, which normally does not exists in other verbs. First-person singular so and first-person plural somos also exists but rarely used.

Noun

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esser (plural esseres)

  1. being

Italian

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Verb

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esser (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of essere

Anagrams

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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esser n

  1. (non-standard since 1984) indefinite plural of ess

Old French

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Verb

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esser

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of eiser

References

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eiser in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022

Old Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin sum.

Verb

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esser

  1. to be
    • La Nobla Leyçon, line 352
      Que crestian devon esser
      That we must be Christian

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Occitan: èsser

Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse.

Verb

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esser

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) to be

Conjugation

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