existent

English

Etymology

From Latin existens, from existere.

Pronunciation

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• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

existent (not comparable)

1. existing; having life or being, current; occurring now

Synonyms

• existing, extant; See also Thesaurus:existent

Antonyms

• nonexistent

Derived terms

• coexistent
• non-existent
• postexistent
• pre-existent
• preexistent
• self-existent
• superexistent
• unexistent

Related terms

• exist
• existence
• existential

Translations

existing; having life or being, current; occurring now

Arabic: مَوْجُود (ar) (mawjūd) Asturian: esistente Belarusian: існу́ючы (isnújučy) Bulgarian: съществу́ващ (bg) (sǎštestvúvašt), настоя́щ (bg) (nastojášt) Catalan: existent (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 現存 / 现存 (zh) (xiàncún) Czech: existující (cs) Dutch: bestaand (nl), bestaande (nl) Finnish: olemassa oleva French: existant (fr) Galician: existente German: existent (de), existierend (de) Greek: Ancient: ὑπάρχων (hupárkhōn) Modern: υπαρκτός (el) (yparktós) Hebrew: קים (he) Hungarian: létező (hu) Italian: esistente (it) Japanese: 現存する (ja) (げんぞんする, genzon suru) Kazakh: қолданымдағы (qoldanymdağy), қолданыстағы (qoldanystağy) Korean: 존재하다 (ko) (jonjaehada) Macedonian: постоечки (postoečki) Maltese: eżistenti Norwegian: Bokmål: eksisterende Polish: istniejący Portuguese: existente (pt) Russian: существу́ющий (ru) (suščestvújuščij), настоя́щий (ru) (nastojáščij) (current) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по́стоје̄ћӣ Roman: póstojēćī Slovak: existujúci Slovene: obstoječ Spanish: existente (es) Swedish: existerande (sv) Turkish: mevcut (tr) Ukrainian: існу́ючий (isnújučyj)

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Korean: (please verify) 현존하는 (hyeonjonhaneun)

Noun

existent (plural existents)

1. (archaic) a being or entity that exists independently

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin existentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əɡ.zisˈten]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əɡ.zisˈtent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eɡ.zisˈtent]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Adjective

existent m or f (masculine and feminine plural existents)

1. existent, existing

   Antonym: inexistent

Related terms

• existència
• existir

Further reading

• “existent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “existent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “existent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “existent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Verb

existent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of exister

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin existēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛksɪsˈtɛnt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adjective

existent (strong nominative masculine singular existenter, not comparable)

1. existent

   Synonyms: real, existierend, vorhanden

   Antonym: inexistent

Declension

Positive forms of existent (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist existent	sie ist existent	es ist existent	sie sind existent
strong declension (without article)	nominative	existenter	existente	existentes	existente
	genitive	existenten	existenter	existenten	existenter
	dative	existentem	existenter	existentem	existenten
	accusative	existenten	existente	existentes	existente
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der existente	die existente	das existente	die existenten
	genitive	des existenten	der existenten	des existenten	der existenten
	dative	dem existenten	der existenten	dem existenten	den existenten
	accusative	den existenten	die existente	das existente	die existenten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein existenter	eine existente	ein existentes	(keine) existenten
	genitive	eines existenten	einer existenten	eines existenten	(keiner) existenten
	dative	einem existenten	einer existenten	einem existenten	(keinen) existenten
	accusative	einen existenten	eine existente	ein existentes	(keine) existenten

Further reading

• “existent” in Duden online
• “existent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin

Verb

existent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of existō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French existant.

Adjective

existent m or n (feminine singular existentă, masculine plural existenți, feminine/neuter plural existente)

1. existent

Declension

Declension of existent

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	existent		existentă		existenți	existente
	definite	existentul		existenta		existenții	existentele
genitive- dative	indefinite	existent		existente		existenți	existente
	definite	existentului		existentei		existenților	existentelor