bist
Bedeutung (English)
second-person singular present of sein
Synonyms
du bist
Frequenz
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/bɪst/
Etymology (English)
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)
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- (copulative,irregular) to be
- (impersonal,irregular) to feel (to experience a condition)
- (impersonal,irregular) to feel like, to be in the mood for
- (auxiliary,irregular) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs
- (intransitive,irregular) to exist; there to be; to be alive
- (colloquial,intransitive,irregular) to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.)
- (childish,intransitive,irregular) to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag
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