Information about the word be (English → Esperanto: esti)

Part of speechverb
Pronunciation/biː/ (stronɡ), /bɪ/ (weak)
Hyphenationbe
Shavian alphabet𐑚𐑰
Deseret alphabet𐐺

Conjugation

Indicative mood
Present tensePast tense
(I) am(I) was
(thou) art(thou) wast
(he) is(he) was
(we) 100(we) were
(you) 100(you) were
(they) 100(they) were
Subjunctive mood
Present tensePast tense
(I) be (I) were
(thou) are(thou)
(he) be(he) were
(we) be(we) were
(you) be(you) were
(they) be(they) were
Imperative mood
be
Participles
Present participlePast participle
beingbeen

Usage samples

Here I am not embarrassed.
But, are you not lonely?
It isn’t your fault.
The fever was worse.
Was she a witch?
Matthew Weidner’s a Florida lawyer who set up a small, one‐man practice in 2001 in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Do not be at all upset about this!
What are the signs?
Ovsjannikova’s current whereabouts are unknown.
Donald J. Trump has long denied being Vladimir Putin’s useful idiot.
What harm could be done, if she were extremely careful?
Perhaps he had been hasty.
How tongues would wag, were it known!
It’s a stunning example of award‐winning entertainment, created in the UK and loved by millions of fans around the world.
I ain’t the one on trial here.

Translations

Afrikaanswees
Albanianjam
Catalanésser; estar
Czechbýti
Danishvære
Dutchwezen; zijn
English (Old English)beon; wesan
Esperantoesti
Faeroesevera
Finnisholla
Frenchêtre
Germansein
Greekείναι
Hungarianlenni
Icelandicvera
Jamaican Patoisa
Kabylianili (ⵉⵍⵉ)
Latinesse
Low Germanweasen
Luxemburgishsinn
Norwegianvære
Papiamentota
Polishbyć
Portugueseachar‐se; estar; ser
Romanianfi
Russianбыть
Saterland Frisianweze
Scotsbe
Spanishser; estar
Srananna; de
Swahili‐wa
Swedishvara
Thaiเป็น; คือ
Turkisholmak
Welshbod
West Frisianwêze
Yiddishזײַן