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estar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • be verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.

Senses

estar is used for these senses in English:

  • be (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
  • 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 (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • be To occupy a place.

be — full definition

  1. verb To exist or to have a certain identity, quality, or state.
  2. verb Used with another verb to form continuing or passive actions.

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