sum

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (copulative, suppletive) to be, exist
2. (copulative, suppletive) to be, exist
3. (suppletive) there be
4. (Medieval-Latin, past, suppletive) to go
5. (Ecclesiastical, Late-Latin, Latin, imperative, suppletive) be

Pron

him

Sinonieme

exsto

consto

exsisto

ivi

possideo

sto

substo

teneo

subsum

exsistere

habeō

compareo

exto

gressus sum

existere

usus sum

Vertalings

zijn

be

sein

essere

être

ser

ser

είμαι

كَانَ

ser

existir

estar

exister

υπάρχω

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈsũː]

Etimologie (Engels)

From Proto-Italic *som~*ezom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“be”) + *bʰúHt (“become”). From the latter of the two derive all the /f-/ forms of Latin sum (including fore), the separate verb fīō (“become”), and the verb-endings -bō (future) and -bam (past imperfect). Clipped conjugations with /s-/, such as sum itself, occurred alongside more conservative equivalents with /es-/ in early Latin, such as the archaic esum. The clipped forms likely arose as unstressed clitics.