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Bourbonnais-Berrichon
Etymology
From Old French estre, from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse.
Verb
être
- to be
Conjugation
Conjugation of the verb être in Bourbonnais-Berrichon
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French
Etymology
From Middle French and Old French estre and ester, respectively from Early Medieval Latin essere (< esse "be") and Latin stāre (“stand”). Conjugations reflect both but more so the former. The form suis "(I) am" appears to reflect Vulgar Latin *suiō < Latin sum. Compare ai "(I) have", sais "(I) know" < *aiō, *saiō < habeō, sapiō.
Cognates
See also Angevin éter, étère, eteur, Aragonese estar, Aromanian escu, est, hiu, Bourbonnais-Berrichon éter, être, Bourguignon étre, Catalan ésser, estar, ser, Champenois ètre, Corsican essa, esse, Emilian èsar, èser, Franc-Comtois étre, Franco-Provençal étre, Friulian jessi, sei, stâ, Galician estar, ser, Gallo ête, étr, Gallurese esse, essi, Istriot ièsi, Istro-Romanian fi, Italian essere, Ladin esse, esser, ester, vester, Ligurian êse, Lombard vesser, Lorrain estre, être, yestre, Neapolitan essere, Norman ête, yête, Occitan èsser, estar, èstre, Picard ète, Piedmontese esse, Portuguese estar, Romagnol es, ser, Romanian fi, Romansch esser, Sardinian èssere, Sassarese assé, Sicilian èssiri, Spanish estar, ser, Venetan èsar, èser, èssere, Walloon esse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛtʁ/
- IPA(key): /ɛːtʁ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium and Canada)
- (Louisiana) IPA(key): /ɛtrə/, /dɛt/
Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Homophones: aître, aîtres, êtres (general), hêtre, hêtres (aspirated)
- Hyphenation: être
Verb
être
- (copulative) to be
- Vous devez être plus clairs.
- You must be clearer.
- (auxiliary) used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of certain verbs (including all reflexive verbs)
- Après être allé au yoga, je suis rentré chez moi.
- After having gone to yoga, I came back home.
- (auxiliary) used to form the passive voice
- Il peut être battu ce soir.
- He can be beaten this evening.
Conjugation
Conjugation of être (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Conjugation of s'être (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Conjugation of s'en être (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Noun
être m (plural êtres)
- being, creature
- (uncountable) being, the state or fact of existence
- 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre, L'Être et le néant:
Related terms
Further reading
- “être - verb”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “être - noun”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Lorrain
Etymology
From Old French estre, from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse.
Verb
être
- to be
Conjugation
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Norman
Pronunciation
Verb
être (Jersey)
- alternative form of ête (“to be”)
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