bist

Significat

second-person singular present of sein

Freqüència

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bɪst/

Etimologia

From Old High German bist. Cognate to Middle Dutch bes, best, dialectal English bist, beest. German bist has two sources: * a form based on Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“(you) are (sg.)”) * an initial b- that was added to the word under influence of verb forms based on Proto-Germanic *beuną (as in Old English beon)

Nou

sein

1. (copulative,irregular) to be
2. (impersonal,irregular) to feel (to experience a condition)
3. (impersonal,irregular) to feel like, to be in the mood for
4. (auxiliary,irregular) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs
5. (intransitive,irregular) to exist; there to be; to be alive
6. (colloquial,intransitive,irregular) to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.)
7. (childish,intransitive,irregular) to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag