Lemma Details Edit

be (Base Concept) (state, location)

To be in a particular place, or in a temporary state or condition (the book is on the table, I am tired).

Base concept label/definition from base.json input (not necessarily English). See Translations below for the English translation/definition and other language-specific text.

POS Type:
verb
POS Subtype:
existence
GUID:
V11_027
Base Difficulty:
Level 3 details
Confidence:
0.00
Notes:
Copula split (Oct 2026); translations needed beyond es/es-419.
Disambiguation:
state, location
Translations
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Language Translation Disambiguation Definition Status
English (en) be - - —
Lithuanian (lt) būti - - —
Chinese (zh) 在zài - - —
Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) 在 - - —
French (fr) être - - —
Spanish (es) estar - - —
Spanish (Latin America) (es-419) estar - - —
German (de) sein - - —
Italian (it) essere - - —
Dutch (nl) zijn - - —
Portuguese (pt) estar - - —
Portuguese (Brazil) (pt-br) estar - - —
Swedish (sv) vara - - —
Vietnamese (vi) ở - - —
Japanese (ja) いるiru - - —
Korean (ko) 있다 - - —
Latin (la) esse - - —
Sanskrit (sa) अस् - - —
Ancient Greek (grc) εἰμί - - —
Classical Arabic (pre-1200) (ar-classical) كَانَ - - —
Old Norse (non) vera - - —
Swahili (sw) kuwa - - —
Romanian (ro) a fi - - —
Polish (pl) być - - —
Thai (th) อยู่ - - —
Malay (ms) berada - - —
Burmese (my) ရှိသည် - - —
Khmer (km) នៅ - - —
Lao (lo) ຢູ່ - - —
Filipino (tl) nasa - - —
Tamil (ta) இரு - - —
Telugu (te) ఉండు - - —
Kannada (kn) ಇರು - - —
Malayalam (ml) ഇരിക്കുക - - —
Sinhala (si) සිටිනවා - - —
Ukrainian (uk) бути - - —
Bengali (bn) থাকা - - —
Hausa (ha) kasance - - —
Yoruba (yo) wà - - —
Igbo (ig) ịnọ - - —
Amharic (am) መሆን - - —
Zulu (zu) ukuba khona - - —
Oromo (om) jiraachuu - - —
Somali (so) joogid - - —
Xhosa (xh) ukubakho - - —
Shona (sn) Not set - - —
Hindi (hi) होना - - —
Punjabi (pa) ਹੋਣਾ - - —
Pashto (ps) اوسېدل - - —
Persian (fa) بودن - - —
Georgian (ka) ყოფნა - - —
Armenian (hy) լինել - - —
Azerbaijani (az) olmaq - - —
Turkish (tr) olmak - - —
Bulgarian (bg) съм - - —
Czech (cs) Not set - - —
Greek (el) είμαι - - —
Estonian (et) Not set - - —
Finnish (fi) Not set - - —
Irish (ga) Not set - - —
Hungarian (hu) Not set - - —
Latvian (lv) Not set - - —
Maltese (mt) Not set - - —
Slovak (sk) Not set - - —
Slovenian (sl) biti - - —
Bosnian (bs) biti - - —
Serbian (sr) бити - - —
Croatian (hr) biti - - —
Macedonian (mk) Not set - - —
Albanian (sq) jam - - —
Montenegrin (me) Not set - - —

Per-language presence of grammatical forms, pronunciations, and audio. Generation and full detail live on the Forms & Grammar and Audio subpages.

Language Translation Grammatical Forms Pronunciation Audio
English (en) 5 forms — —
Lithuanian (lt) 23 forms — —
Chinese (zh) — — —
French (fr) 20 forms — —
Spanish (es) 21 forms — —
Spanish (Latin America) (es-419) 18 forms — —
German (de) 15 forms — —
Italian (it) — — —
Dutch (nl) — — —
Portuguese (pt) 18 forms — —
Swedish (sv) — — —
Japanese (ja) — — —
Korean (ko) — — —
Swahili (sw) — — —
Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) — — —
Portuguese (Brazil) (pt-br) — — —
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