Spanish word
estar
/esˈtaɾ/
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- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 177 in the course corpus
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- to be (where or how)
- to be (have a temporary or permanent location in space)intransitive
- to be presentintransitive
- to be (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)intransitive
- to be (auxiliary verb for the progressive/continuous aspect, preceding the gerund of the verb)
- to be in a state (in a passive voice sense)intransitive
- to be, stay (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)reflexive
- to be (still)intransitive
- to be in a long-term state (in specific idioms)intransitive
- be(auxiliary: used to form the continuous aspect of various tenses)
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