existir
Portuguese, verb/e.zisˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/
existir is spelled E-X-I-S-T-I-R (7 letters) and appears 33 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,719th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Existir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to exist (to be)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ter existência, ser real”.
What does existir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exist (to be)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ter existência, ser real
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of existir
- existo first-person present singular
- existi first-person preterite singular
- existido participle past
- existires infinitive second-person singular
- existirmos first-person infinitive plural
- existirdes infinitive plural second-person
- existirem infinitive plural third-person
- existindo gerund
- existidos masculine participle past
- existida feminine participle past
- existidas feminine participle past
- existes indicative present second-person
- existe indicative present singular
- existimos first-person indicative plural
- existis indicative plural present
- existem indicative plural present
- existia first-person imperfect indicative
- existias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce existir?
- Brazil /e.zisˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.zisˈt͡ʃi(h)]
- /e.zisˈt͡ʃi(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to existir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is existir in Portuguese?
existir appears 33 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).