essere — meaning in English
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English meaning
- be verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
- being noun A living creature, especially in phrases like "human being."
- genuflect verb To bend the knee, as in servitude.
- get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
- have verb To own or possess something.
- stay verb To remain in a place rather than leaving.
Senses
essere is used for these senses in English:
- be (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
- be (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- be (rare, and, regional, chiefly, in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was. [from 15th c.]
- be (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- be (now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- being A living creature.
- genuflect (intransitive, figurative) To behave in a servile manner; to grovel.
- get (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
be — full definition
- verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
- verb Used with another verb to form continuing or passive actions.
being — full definition
- noun A living creature, especially in phrases like "human being."
- noun The state of existing; existence itself.
- conjunction Given that; since (used to introduce a reason).