Significado (English)

  1. (intransitive) to be (have a temporary or permanent location in space)
  2. (intransitive) to be (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)
  3. to be (auxiliary verb for the progressive/continuous aspect, preceding the gerund of the verb)
  4. (intransitive) to be in a state (in a passive voice sense)
  5. (reflexive) to be, stay (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)
  6. (intransitive) to be (still)
  7. (intransitive) to be in a long-term state (in specific idioms)

Frecuencia

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Con guion como
es‧tar
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/esˈtaɾ/
Etimología (English)

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish estar, inherited from Latin stāre (“stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (compare English stand). The preterite's origin is unclear, most likely generalized from the preterite of haber (“to have”), hub- (note that b and v are pronounced identically; compare the same development in andar and tener). Cognate with English state.

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