Mane (Îngilîzî)

second-person singular present of sein

sein

Têgeh

Hevwate

du bist

Pircarînî

A1
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/bɪst/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

In summary

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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