exister
French, verb/ɛɡ.zis.te/
exister is spelled E-X-I-S-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exister is a French verb meaning “to exist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être actuellement, en acte ne pas être imaginé, en puissance, mais avoir une réalité”.
What does exister mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exist
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être actuellement, en acte ne pas être imaginé, en puissance, mais avoir une réalité. 2. Être, se trouver ou avoir lieu actuellement. 3. Vivre. 4. Ne pas avoir l’importance qu’on pense.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of exister
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- existant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- existé participle past
- existe first-person indicative present
- existes indicative present second-person
- existons first-person indicative plural
- existez indicative plural present
- existent indicative plural present
- existais first-person imperfect indicative
- existait imperfect indicative singular
- existions first-person imperfect indicative
- existiez imperfect indicative plural
- existaient imperfect indicative plural
- existai first-person historic indicative
- existas historic indicative past
- exista historic indicative past
- existâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exister?
- /ɛɡ.zis.te/
- \ɛɡ.zis.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exister
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exister in French?
exister appears 17 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).