# be/translations

This page contains translations for be. See the main entry for more information.

## English
### Verb
#### Translations

Note: This verb has many irregularities in both form and usage in many languages. Use translations with caution.
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:
Iranian Persian: بودَن (budan), تَشْریف داشْتَن (tašrif dâštan)
Pipil: nemi
Polish: być (pl) impf
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), seer (es)
Swedish: vara (sv), existera (sv), finnas (sv), finnas till, vara till (sv)
Tagalog: maging
Tamil: இரு (ta) (iru), உள் (ta) (uḷ), 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)
Venetan: 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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