- This page contains translations for be. See the main entry for more information.
Note: This verb has many irregularities in both form and usage in many languages. Use translations with caution.
auxiliary, dialectal: used to mark habitual aspect
occupy a place
- Albanian: jam (sq)
- Apache:
- Western Apache: naiágúóli ((be together))
- Arabic: كَانَ (ar) (kāna)
- Egyptian Arabic: يبقى m (yebʔā)
- South Levantine Arabic: كان (kān)
- Armenian: լինել (hy) (linel), եմ (hy) (em)
- Aromanian: escu, hiu
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܵܘܹܐ (hawe)
- Asturian: tar (ast)
- Basque: egon
- Belarusian: быць (be) (bycʹ) (present tense seldom used)
- Bourguignon: étre
- Bouyei: ius
- Breton: bezañ (br)
- Bulgarian: съм (bg) (sǎm)
- Catalan: ésser (ca), ser (ca), estar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Dungan: зэ (ze)
- Mandarin: 在 (zh) (zài)
- Classical Nahuatl: cah
- Cornish: bos, (Unified) bôs
- Czech: být (cs) impf
- Dalmatian: saite
- Danish: være (da)
- Dutch: zijn (nl), staan (nl), zitten (nl), liggen (nl), wezen (nl) (informal), zich bevinden
- Elfdalian: wårå
- Emilian: êser
- Erzya: улемс (uľems)
- Esperanto: esti (eo)
- Estonian: olema (et)
- Evenki: би (bi)
- Faroese: vera (fo)
- Finnish: olla (fi)
- Franc-Comtois: étre
- Franco-Provençal: estar, étre, étar
- French: être (fr)
- Old French: ester
- Friulian: jessi, sei
- Galician: estar (gl)
- Georgian: ყოფნა (ka) (q̇opna), არის (aris) (infinitive)
- German: sein (de); sich befinden (de)
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (wisan)
- Greek: είμαι (el) (eímai)
- Ancient: εἰμί (eimí)
- Haitian Creole: se
- Hebrew: הָיָה (he) (hayá)
- Hindi: होना (hi) (honā)
- Hungarian: van (hu)
- Icelandic: vera (is)
- Ido: esar (io)
- Indonesian: berada (id)
- Ingrian: olla
- Irish: bí
- Old Irish: at·tá
- Istriot: ièsi
- Istro-Romanian: fi
- Italian: essere (it)
- Japanese: 在る (ja) (ある, aru) (inanimate), 居る (ja) (いる, iru) (animate)
- Jarawa: ʈʰi
- Jeju: 잇다 (itda), 싯다 (sitda), 이시다 (isida), 시다 (sida), 엇다 (eotda) (negative), 읏다 (eutda) (negative)
- Kabyle: ili
- Khmer: នៅ (km) (nɨw)
- Korean: 있다 (ko) (itda), (honorific) 계시다 (ko) (gyesida), 없다 (ko) (eopda) (negative)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bûn (ku)
- Ladin: vester
- Lao: ຢູ່ (yū)
- Latgalian: byut
- Latin: sum (la), sto (la)
- Latvian: būt (lv)
- Ligurian: êse
- Lithuanian: būti (lt)
- Livonian: vȱlda
- Lombard: vèss
- Low German:
- Münsterländisch: sien (nds) (sin (nds), syn)
- German Low German: wesen (nds), sin (nds); liggen, stahn, sitten (nds), sien (nds)
- Middle Low German: (please verify) wesen, (please verify) sîn
- Lü: ᦊᦴᧈ (ẏuu¹)
- Luxembourgish: sinn (lb)
- Macedonian: е (mk) (e), се наоѓа (se naoǵa)
- Malay: berada
- Jawi: براد
- Manx: bee
- Mazanderani: بوئن (boen)
- Megleno-Romanian: ire
- Middle English: been
- Middle Korean: 잇다〮 (ìstá), 없〯다〮 (ěpstá) (negative)
- Nahuatl: cah
- Ngazidja Comorian: uhundriha
- Norman: être
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: wees
- Hallig and Mooring: weese
- Helgoland: wees
- Sylt: wiis
- Wiedingharde: wjizze
- Northern Sami: leat
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: være (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vera (nn), vere (nn)
- Occitan: èsser (oc), èstre (oc)
- Okinawan: 有ん (あん, an) (inanimate), 居ん (をぅん, wun) (animate)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: бꙑти impf (byti)
- Old English: bēon, wesan (ang)
- Old Frisian: wesa
- Old Korean: 有叱 (*Is-), 無叱 (EPUs-) (negative)
- Old Norse: vera
- Old Prussian: būtwei
- Old Saxon: wesan, sīn
- Pennsylvania German: sei
- Persian: هَسْت (fa) (hast), بودَن (fa) (budan)
- Picard: ète
- Piedmontese: esse
- Pipil: nemi
- Polish: być (pl)
- Portuguese: estar (pt)
- Quechua: tiyay, kai
- Romanian: fi (ro)
- Romansch: esser
- Russian: быть (ru) impf (bytʹ) (present tense seldom used), находи́ться (ru) impf (naxodítʹsja)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: èsseri
- Logudorese: èssere
- Saterland Frisian: weese
- Scottish Gaelic: bi
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: би̏ти impf, налазити се
- Roman: bȉti (sh) impf, nalaziti se (sh)
- Shan: please add this translation if you can
- Sicilian: èssiri (scn)
- Skolt Sami: leeʹd
- Slovak: byť (sk)
- Slovene: biti (sl)
- Slovincian: bëc
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: byś
- Upper Sorbian: być (hsb)
- Spanish: estar (es)
- Swahili: kuwa (sw)
- Swedish: vara (sv), ligga (sv), stå (sv), sitta (sv), finnas (sv)
- Tamil: இரு (ta) (iru), அமர் (ta) (amar)
- Thai: อยู่ (th) (yùu)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: bulunmak (tr), olmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: бу́ти (uk) impf (búty) (present tense seldom used)
- Urdu: ہونا (honā)
- Venetian: èser (vec)
- Vietnamese: ở (vi)
- Welsh: bod (cy)
- West Frisian: wêze (fy)
- White Hmong: nyob nov
- Yiddish: זײַן (zayn)
- Yoruba: wà, sí (negative)
- Zazaki: bı
- Zhuang: youq
- ǃXóõ: ǀîi
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occur, take place
- Arabic: كَانَ (ar) (kāna)
- Armenian: լինել (hy) (linel)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܵܘܹܐ (hawe)
- Asturian: ser (ast)
- Basque: izan
- Belarusian: быць (be) impf (bycʹ)
- Bulgarian: съм (bg) impf (sǎm)
- Catalan: ésser (ca), ser (ca), haver-hi (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 在 (zh) (zài), 有 (zh) (yǒu)
- Czech: být (cs) impf
- Danish: finde sted, ske (da)
- Dutch: zijn (nl), plaatsvinden (nl)
- Emilian: êser
- Esperanto: okazi (eo)
- Estonian: olema (et)
- Finnish: olla (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: étre
- French: être (fr)
- Galician: ser (gl)
- Georgian: მოხდენა (moxdena) (verbal noun), ხდება (xdeba) (infinitive)
- German: sein (de); stattfinden (de)
- Greek: γίνομαι (el) (gínomai)
- Ancient: γίγνομαι (gígnomai), εἰμί (eimí), συμβαίνω (sumbaínō)
- Hebrew: הָיָה (he) (hayá)
- Hindi: होना (hi) (honā)
- Hungarian: lenni (hu)
- Icelandic: vera (is)
- Ingrian: olla
- Irish: bí
- Italian: essere (it)
- Japanese: 有る (ja) (ある, aru)
- Javanese: ana
- Khmer: ជា (km) (ciə), គឺ (km) (kɨɨ)
- Korean: 일어나다 (ko) (ireonada), 생기다 (ko) (saenggida)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bûn (ku)
- Lao: ບັງເກີດ (bang kœ̄t)
- Latin: sum (la)
- Ligurian: êse
- Lithuanian: būti (lt)
- Low German:
- German Low German: wesen (nds); stattfinnen, geven (nds), bören, gebören, schehn
- Macedonian: би́де (bíde), е (mk) (e)
- Manchu: ᠪᡳ (bi), ᠪᡳᠮᠪᡳ (bimbi)
- Manx: bee
- Mazanderani: بأین (bayen)
- Middle English: been
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: бий (mn) (bii), байх (mn) (bajx)
- Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠢ (bui), ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠬᠤ (bayiqu)
- Norman: être
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: være (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vera (nn), vere (nn)
- Occitan: èsser (oc)
- Persian: بودَن (fa) (budan)
- Polish: być (pl)
- Portuguese: ser (pt)
- Romagnol: cadér
- Romanian: fi (ro)
- Russian: быть (ru) impf (bytʹ), происходи́ть (ru) impf (proisxodítʹ), произойти́ (ru) pf (proizojtí)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: би̏ти impf
- Roman: bȉti (sh) impf
- Slovak: byť (sk)
- Slovene: biti (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: byś
- Spanish: ser (es)
- Swedish: vara (sv), ske (sv) (about actions)
- Tamil: நட (ta) (naṭa)
- Telugu: అగు (te) (agu)
- Thai: เกิดขึ้น (gə̀ət-kʉ̂n)
- Turkish: olmak (tr), var olmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: бу́ти (uk) impf (búty)
- Urdu: ہونا (honā)
- Vietnamese: có (vi)
- Welsh: bod (cy)
- Zazaki: biyen
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used to indicate that the subject and object are the same
- Afrikaans: wees (af)
- Albanian: jam (sq)
- Arabic: كَانَ (ar) (kāna)
- Egyptian Arabic: يبقى m (yebʔā)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܵܘܹܐ (hawe)
- Asturian: ser (ast), ser (ast)
- Basque: izan
- Belarusian: быць (be) impf (bycʹ)
- Bulgarian: съм (bg) impf (sǎm)
- Burmese: ရှိ (my) (hri.), ဖြစ် (my) (hprac), နေ (my) (ne), ဟုတ် (my) (hut) (in negative clauses)
- Carpathian Rusyn: бу́ти impf (búty), буц (buc), бы́ти impf (bŷ́ty)
- Catalan: ésser (ca), ser (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 是 (si4) (formal and written), 係/系 (yue) (hai6) (vernacular)
- Dungan: сы (sɨ)
- Eastern Min: 是 (sê)
- Gan: 是 (si5)
- Hakka: 係/系 (he)
- Hokkien: 是 (zh-min-nan) (sǐ, sī)
- Jin: 是 (si3)
- Literary: 唯 (wéi) (archaic), 係 (xì)
- Mandarin: 是 (zh) (shì)
- Wu: 是
- Xiang: 是 (shr5)
- Czech: být (cs) impf
- Danish: være (da)
- Dutch: zijn (nl)
- Emilian: êser
- Esperanto: esti (eo)
- Estonian: olema (et)
- Extremaduran: sel
- Faroese: vera (fo)
- Finnish: olla (fi)
- French: être (fr)
- Middle French: estre
- Old French: estre
- Galician: ser (gl)
- German: sein (de)
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (wisan)
- Greek: είμαι (el) (eímai)
- Ancient: εἰμί (eimí)
- Haitian Creole: se
- Hindi: होना (hi) (honā)
- Icelandic: vera (is)
- Ingrian: olla
- Irish: is (ga)
- Isan: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: essere (it)
- Japanese: です (ja) (desu), である (ja) (dearu), だ (ja) (da)
- Jarawa: ʈʰi
- Jeju: 이다 (-ida), 아니다 (anida) (negative)
- Kabyle: d (predicative particle), ili (copular verb)
- Khmer: ជា (km) (ciə), គឺ (km) (kɨɨ)
- Korean: 이다 (ko) (ida), 아니다 (ko) (anida) (negative)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bûn (ku)
- Lao: ແມ່ນ (mǣn), ເປັນ (pen), ຄື (lo) (khư̄)
- Latin: sum (la)
- Latvian: būt (lv)
- Ligurian: êse
- Lithuanian: būti (lt)
- Louisiana Creole: çé, yê (interrogative or relative clauses), dèt (after auxiliaries or pre-verbal markers; in commands)
- Lü: ᦔᦲᧃ (ṗiin)
- Macedonian: е (mk) impf (e)
- Malay: ialah (ms) (seldom used)
- Jawi: اياله
- Malayalam: ആകുന്നു (ākunnu)
- Manchu: ᠣᠴᡳ (oci)
- Manx: she
- Middle English: been
- Middle Korean: 이〮라〮 (-ílá), 아니〮다〮 (ànítá) (negative)
- Mon: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: байх (mn) (bajx)
- Navajo: átʼé, nilį́
- Norman: être
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: være (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vera (nn), vere (nn)
- Okinawan: やん (yan), やいびーん (yaibīn) (formal)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: бꙑти impf (byti)
- Old East Slavic: бꙑти impf (byti)
- Old English: wesan (ang)
- Old Korean: 是 (*i-)
- Pela: ŋɔ̠t⁵⁵
- Pennsylvania German: sei
- Persian: بودَن (fa) (budan)
- Polish: być (pl) impf, to (pl)
- Portuguese: ser (pt)
- Quechua: kay (qu)
- Rade: jing
- Romani: si
- Romanian: fi (ro)
- Russian: быть (ru) impf (bytʹ) (present tense seldom used), явля́ться (ru) impf or impf (javljátʹsja)
- Sanskrit: अस्ति (sa) (asti)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: би̏ти impf
- Roman: bȉti (sh) impf
- Shan: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: byť (sk) impf
- Slovene: biti (sl) impf
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: byś impf
- Upper Sorbian: być (hsb) impf
- Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: ser (es)
- Swedish: vara (sv)
- Tajik: будан (tg) (budan)
- Tamil: இரு (ta) (iru) (present tense not used), ஆகு (ta) (āku), ஆ (ta) (ā)
- Thai: เป็น (th) (bpen), คือ (th) (kʉʉ)
- Tibetan: རེད (red), ཡིན་འགོད (yin 'god)
- Tocharian B: tāk-
- Turkish: imek (tr)
- Ukrainian: бу́ти (uk) impf (búty)
- Urdu: ہونا (honā)
- Vietnamese: là (vi)
- Welsh: bod (cy)
- Yiddish: זײַן (zayn)
- Yoruba: ni, jẹ́
- Zhuang: dwg
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used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same
- Arabic:
- Egyptian Arabic: يساوى m (yesāwī), يعمل m (yeʕmel)
- Belarusian: быць (be) (bycʹ)
- Bulgarian: съм (bg) (sǎm)
- Catalan: fer (ca), ésser (ca), ser (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 是 (zh) (shì)
- Czech: být (cs)
- Danish: være (da), være lig med
- Dutch: (please verify) gelijk zijn
- Esperanto: egali, esti (eo)
- Finnish: olla yhtä suuri kuin, olla (fi)
- French: faire (fr)
- German: sein (de)
- Greek: ίσον (el) (íson)
- Ancient: εἰμί (eimí), εἰμί ἴσος (eimí ísos) (+ dative)
- Hindi: होना (hi) (honā)
- Icelandic: vera (is)
- Irish: bí cothrom le (ga)
- Italian: essere uguale, fare (it)
- Japanese: です (ja) (desu), である (ja) (dearu), だ (ja) (da)
- Khmer: ជា (km) (ciə)
- Korean: 같다 (ko) (gatda)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bûn (ku)
- Latin: sum (la)
- Latvian: būt (lv)
- Lithuanian: būti (lt)
- Macedonian: е еднакво на (e ednakvo na)
- Malay: ialah (ms)
- Jawi: اياله
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: være (no) or være lik
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vera (nn), vere (nn) or vera, (please verify) vere lik
- Persian: بودَن (fa) (budan)
- Polish: być (pl), równać się (pl)
- Portuguese: ser (pt), dar (pt)
- Romanian: fi (ro), egala (ro)
- Russian: равня́ться (ru) impf (ravnjátʹsja), равно́ (ru) (ravnó), быть (ru) (bytʹ), (e.g. a future tense is used: бу́дет (ru) (búdet)), полу́читься (ru) (polúčitʹsja), соста́вить (ru) (sostávitʹ), э́то (ru) (éto), — (“long dash”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: би̏ти impf
- Roman: bȉti (sh) impf
- Slovak: byť (sk)
- Slovene: biti (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: byś
- Swedish: vara (sv), vara lika med
- Thai: เท่ากับ (th) (tâo-gàp)
- Ukrainian: бу́ти (uk) impf (búty)
- Urdu: ہونا (honā)
- Vietnamese: là (vi)
- Welsh: bod (cy)
- Yiddish: זײַן (zayn)
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used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal
- Arabic: كَانَ (ar) (kāna)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܵܘܹܐ (hawe)
- Asturian: ser (ast)
- Basque: izan
- Belarusian: быць (be) (bycʹ) (present tense seldom used)
- Bulgarian: съм (bg) (sǎm)
- Catalan: ésser (ca), ser (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 是 (zh) (shì), (absent with adjectives)
- Czech: být (cs)
- Danish: være (da)
- Dutch: zijn (nl)
- Emilian: êser
- Esperanto: esti (eo)
- Estonian: olema (et)
- Finnish: olla (fi)
- French: être (fr)
- German: sein (de)
- Greek: είμαι (el) (eímai)
- Ancient: εἰμί (eimí) (or no verb)
- Haitian Creole: se
- Hindi: होना (hi) (honā)
- Icelandic: vera (is)
- Irish: is (ga)
- Italian: essere (it)
- Japanese: です (ja) (desu), である (ja) (dearu), だ (ja) (da), (please verify) をやる (o yaru)
- Korean: 이다 (ko) (ida)
- Latin: sum (la)
- Ligurian: êse
- Lithuanian: būti (lt)
- Macedonian: е (mk) impf (e)
- Malay: ialah (ms)
- Jawi: اياله
- Middle English: been
- Navajo: átʼé, nilį́
- Ngazidja Comorian: ukaya
- Norman: être
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: være (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vera (nn), vere (nn)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: бꙑти impf (byti)
- Old Turkic: 𐰼 (r² /er-/)
- Persian: بودَن (fa) (budan)
- Polish: być (pl)
- Portuguese: ser (pt)
- Romanian: fi (ro)
- Russian: быть (ru) (bytʹ) (present tense seldom used), явля́ться (ru) (javljátʹsja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: би̏ти impf
- Roman: bȉti (sh) impf
- Slovak: byť (sk)
- Slovene: biti (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: byś
- Spanish: ser (es)
- Swedish: vara (sv)
- Thai: เป็น (th) (bpen), (absent with adjectives)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Urdu: ہونا (honā)
- Vietnamese: là (vi), (absent with adjectives)
- Welsh: bod (cy)
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it
- Arabic: كَانَ (ar) (kāna)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܵܘܹܐ (hawe)
- Asturian: ser (ast), tar (ast), ser (ast), ser (ast), tar (ast)
- Azerbaijani: *imək
- Basque: izan, egon
- Belarusian: быць (be) (bycʹ) (present tense seldom used)
- Bulgarian: съм (bg) (sǎm)
- Catalan: ésser (ca), ser (ca), estar (ca)
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⵍⵉ (ili)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: not used in Mandarin
- Chuukese: mi
- Czech: být (cs)
- Danish: være (da)
- Dutch: zijn (nl)
- Egyptian: not used in Egyptian
- Emilian: êser
- Esperanto: esti (eo)
- Estonian: olema (et)
- Finnish: olla (fi)
- French: être (fr)
- Galician: ser (gl), estar (gl)
- German: sein (de)
- Greek: είμαι (el) (eímai)
- Ancient: εἰμί (eimí) (or no verb), ἔχω (ékhō) + (an adverb equivalent to the adjective)
- Hebrew: הוא (he) m (hu), היא (he) f (hi), הם (he) m pl (hem), הן (he) f pl (hen), הָיָה (he) (hayá) (past)
- Hindi: होना (hi) (honā)
- Icelandic: vera (is)
- Ido: esar (io)
- Ingrian: olla
- Irish: bí
- Old Irish: at·tá
- Italian: essere (it)
- Japanese: not used in Japanese
- Kabyle: d
- Korean: not used in Korean
- Latin: sum (la)
- Latvian: būt (lv)
- Lithuanian: būti (lt)
- Macedonian: е (mk) (e)
- Malay: adalah (ms)
- Jawi: اداله (ms)
- Manx: bee
- Middle English: been
- Norman: être
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: være (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vera (nn), vere (nn)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: бꙑти impf (byti)
- Pennsylvania German: sei
- Persian: بودَن (fa) (budan)
- Polish: być (pl)
- Portuguese: ser (pt), estar (pt)
- Romanian: fi (ro)
- Russian: быть (ru) impf (bytʹ) (present tense seldom used)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: би̏ти impf
- Roman: bȉti (sh) impf
- Slovak: byť (sk)
- Slovene: biti (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: byś
- Spanish: ser (es), estar (es)
- Swedish: vara (sv)
- Thai: not used in Thai
- Turkish: *imek
- Ukrainian: бу́ти (uk) (búty)
- Urdu: ہونا (honā)
- Uzbek: *emoq
- Vietnamese: (optional with adjectives only) thì (vi)
- Welsh: bod (cy)
- Yiddish: זײַן (zayn)
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used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase
used to link a subject to a count or measurement
used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like
intransitive, non-copulative: exist
- Albanian: jam (sq)
- Arabic: كَانَ (ar) (kāna)
- Egyptian Arabic: موجود (mawgūd)
- Armenian: լինել (hy) (linel)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܵܘܹܐ (hawe)
- Asturian: ser (ast)
- Avar: букӏине (bukʼine)
- Azerbaijani: var (az)
- Balinese: ada
- Basque: izan
- Belarusian: быць (be) (bycʹ)
- Bengali: হওয়া (bn) (hoōẇa)
- Breton: bezañ (br)
- Bulgarian: съм (bg) (sǎm)
- Buryat: байха (bajxa)
- Catalan: haver-hi (ca), existir (ca)
- Cebuano: nangin
- Chechen: хила (xila)
- Chinese:
- Dungan: ю (i͡u), зэ (ze)
- Mandarin: 是 (zh) (shì), 有 (zh) (yǒu), 存在 (zh) (cúnzài), 在 (zh)
- Cornish: bos
- Czech: být (cs) impf
- Danish: være (da), være til
- Dutch: zijn (nl), bestaan (nl)
- Egyptian: (wnn)
- Emilian: êsreg
- Esperanto: ekzisti (eo), esti (eo)
- Estonian: olema (et)
- Even: би- (ʙi-)
- Evenki: би- (bi-)
- Faroese: vera (fo), finnast
- Finnish: olla (fi), olla olemassa (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: étre
- French: être (fr)
- Galician: ser (gl)
- Georgian: არსებობა (arseboba), არსებობს (arsebobs) (infinitive)
- German: sein (de), existieren (de)
- Alemannic German: sii
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (wisan)
- Greek: υπάρχω (el) (ypárcho)
- Ancient: εἰμί (eimí), ὑπάρχω (hupárkhō), ὑπόκειμαι (hupókeimai), συμβαίνω (sumbaínō)
- Greenlandic: a
- Hebrew: הָיָה (he) (hayá)
- Hiligaynon: kamao, pagkamao
- Hindi: होना (hi) (honā)
- Icelandic: vera (is)
- Ido: existar (io)
- Indonesian: ada (id)
- Ingrian: olla
- Ingush: хила (xila)
- Irish: bí
- Old Irish: at·tá
- Italian: essere (it), esserci (it)
- Japanese: 在る (ja) (aru), 存在する (ja) (そんざいする, sonzai suru), いる (ja) (iru), いらっしゃる (ja) (irassharu) (honorific)
- Jarawa: ʈʰi
- Kashmiri: آسُن (āsun)
- Khmer: ជា (km) (ciə), គឺ (km) (kɨɨ), មាន (km) (miən)
- Korean: 있다 (ko) (itda), 존재하다 (ko) (jonjaehada), 계시다 (ko) (gyesida) (honorific)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bûn (ku), hebûn (ku)
- Ladin: vester
- Lao: ຢູ່ (yū)
- Latin: sum (la)
- Latvian: būt (lv)
- Ligurian: êse
- Lithuanian: būti (lt)
- Low German:
- German Low German: wesen (nds) (dialectal), sien (nds) (dialectal); bestahn, existeren
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: е (mk) (e), по́стои (póstoi)
- Malay: ada (ms)
- Jawi: اد (ms)
- Manchu: ᠪᡳᠮᠪᡳ (bimbi)
- Manx: bee
- Mazanderani: بیهن (biyen), دأیهن (dayen)
- Middle English: been
- Mòcheno: sai'
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: байх (mn) (bajx)
- Nanai: би- (bi-)
- Ngazidja Comorian: ukaya
- Norman: être
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: være (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vera (nn), vere (nn)
- Occitan: èsser (oc)
- Odia: ହେବା (or) (hebā)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: бꙑти impf (byti)
- Old English: wesan (ang)
- Ossetian: уын (wyn)
- Papiamentu: ta
- Pennsylvania German: sei
- Persian: بودَن (fa) (budan), تشریف داشتن (tašrif dâštan)
- Pipil: nemi
- Polish: być (pl)
- Portuguese: ser (pt), haver (pt), existir (pt)
- Quechua: kai
- Romani: si
- Romanian: fi (ro), exista (ro)
- Russian: быть (ru) impf (bytʹ) (present tense seldom used), существова́ть (ru) impf (suščestvovátʹ)
- Sanskrit: अस्ति (sa) (asti), भवति (sa) (bhavati)
- Sardinian: essere, essere
- Saterland Frisian: weze
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: би̏ти impf, постојати impf
- Roman: bȉti (sh) impf, postojati (sh) impf
- Slovak: byť (sk)
- Slovene: biti (sl)
- Somali: jirid (so)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: byś
- Spanish: ser (es), existir (es), haber (es)
- Swedish: vara (sv), existera (sv), finnas (sv), finnas till, vara till (sv)
- Tagalog: maging
- Tamil: இரு (ta) (iru), உள் (ta) (uḷ), (please verify) நிலவு (ta) (nilavu)
- Telugu: ఉండు (te) (uṇḍu)
- Tetum: iha
- Thai: มีอยู่ (mii-yùu), อยู่ (th) (yùu)
- Turkish: var (tr)
- Ukrainian: бу́ти (uk) (búty)
- Urdu: ہونا (honā)
- Venetian: èser (vec)
- Vietnamese: có (vi)
- Volapük: binön (vo)
- Welsh: bod (cy)
- Yakut: баар (baar)
- Zazaki: est
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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