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From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh2ti, from the root *steh2- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bestaan — to be
• Albanian: ekzistoj — to be
• Albanian: a (gheg) — to be
• Arabic: وُجِدَ (wujida) — to be
• Armenian: գոյություն ունենալ (goyutʻyun unenal) — to be
• Armenian: լինել (linel) — to be
• Asturian: esistir — to be
• Asturian: existir — to be
• Azerbaijani: var olmaq — to be
• Azerbaijani: mövcüd olmaq — to be
• Belarusian: існава́ць (isnavácʹ) — to be
• Bulgarian: съществувам (sǎštestvuvam) — to be
• Catalan: existir — to be
• Chinese Cantonese: 存在 (cyun4 zoi6) — to be
• Chinese: 存在 (zh-min-nan) — to be
• Chinese Mandarin: 存在 (cúnzài) — to be
• Czech: být — to be
• Czech: existovat — to be
• Danish: eksistere — to be
• Danish: bestå — to be
• Danish: findes — to be
• Dutch: bestaan — to be
• Egyptian: wnn — to be
• Esperanto: ekzisti — to be
• Estonian: eksisteerima — to be
• Estonian: olemas olema — to be
• Estonian: olelema — to be
• Faroese: vera — to be
• Faroese: vera til — to be
• Faroese: finnast — to be
• Finnish: olla — to be
• Finnish: olla olemassa — to be
• French: exister — to be
• Galician: existir — to be
• Georgian: არსებობა (arseboba) — to be
• German: bestehen — to be
• German: existieren — to be
• Greek: υπάρχω (ypárcho) — to be
• Greek: υφίσταμαι (yfístamai) — to be
• Ancient Greek: ὑπάρχω (hupárkhō) — to be
• Hebrew: הִתְקַיֵּם (hitkayém) — to be
• Hindi: अस्तित्व (astitva) — to be
• Hungarian: van — to be
• Hungarian: létezik — to be
• Hungarian: él — to be
• Ido: existar — to be
• Interlingua: exister — to be
• Irish: bí ann — to be
• Italian: esistere — to be
• Japanese: 存在する (sonzai suru) — to be
• Kazakh: бар болу (bar bolu) — to be
• Khmer: មាន (mien) — to be
• Korean: 존재(存在)하다 (jonjaehada) — to be
• Northern Kurdish: hebûn — to be
• Kyrgyz: бар болуу (bar boluu) — to be
• Ladino: egzistir — to be
• Latin: existō — to be
• Latin: exsistō — to be
• Latin: sum — to be
• Latin: exsto — to be
• Latin: consto — to be
• Latin: exto — to be
• Latin: compareo — to be
• Latvian: eksistēt — to be
• Latvian: pastāvēt — to be
• Lithuanian: egzistuoti — to be
• Lithuanian: būti — to be
• Lithuanian: gyvuoti — to be
• Macedonian: егзисти́ра (egzistíra) — to be
• Macedonian: постои (postoi) — to be
• Malay: wujud — to be
• Maltese: eżista — to be
• Māori: tiari — to be
• Nahuatl: oncah — to be
• Nahuatl: cah — to be
• Norwegian: eksistere — to be
• Norwegian: bestå — to be
• Norwegian Bokmål: finnes — to be
• Norwegian Nynorsk: finnast — to be
• Occitan: existir — to be
• Old English: wesan — to be
• Old English: bēon — to be
• Persian: زیستن (zistan) — to be
• Persian: وجود داشتن (vojud dâštan) — to be
• Persian: هستادن — to be
• Polish: istnieć — to be
• Polish: egzystować — to be
• Portuguese: existir — to be
• Quechua: kay — to be
• Romanian: exista — to be
• Russian: существова́ть (suščestvovátʹ) — to be
• Scots: exeest — to be
• Serbo-Croatian: póstojati — to be
• Serbo-Croatian: egzistírati — to be
• Serbo-Croatian: òpstojati — to be
• Serbo-Croatian: bȉvstvovati — to be
• Slovak: jestvovať — to be
• Slovak: existovať — to be
• Slovene: obstajati — to be
• Spanish: existir — to be
• Swedish: existera — to be
• Swedish: bestå — to be
• Tajik: зистан (zistan) — to be
• Tajik: вуҷуд доштан (vujud doštan) — to be
• Tamil: இரு (iru) — to be
• Tamil: உள் (uḷ) — to be
• Tamil: நிலவு (nilavu) — to be
• Tangut: 𗁁 — to be
• Thai: มีอยู่ (mii-yùu) — to be
• Turkish: var olmak — to be
• Ukrainian: існува́ти (isnuváty) — to be
• Uzbek: mavjud boʻlmoq — to be
• Uzbek: bor boʻlmoq — to be
• Vietnamese: tồn tại — to be
• Volapük: dabinön — to be
• Walloon: egzister — to be
• Welsh: bodoli — to be
• Yiddish: עקסיסטירן (eksistirn) — to be
• Zazaki: estin — to be
• Zazaki: estey — to be