estar

Meaning

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

exist

be located

be sitting

have visited

at odds with oneself

be in

be present

have been

estar sentado

sientate

haver

tener todo

tá

ponerse

tar

desavenidos

haber visitado

haber estado

habitar uno

reverenciar a Dios

acorde

claramente por públicamente

ser de

Frequency

Hyphenated as

es‧tar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/esˈtaɾ/

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.