come into being

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

come into being (third-person singular simple present comes into being, present participle coming into being, simple past came into being, past participle come into being)

1. (idiomatic) To form; to start to exist.

   Synonyms: appear, form, materialize, take shape; see also Thesaurus:come into being

   Sociologists would like to study how this phenomenon came into being.

Related terms

• bring into being

Translations

start to exist

• Azerbaijani: törəmək (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 形成 (zh) (xíngchéng), 產生／产生 (zh) (chǎnshēng), 誕生／诞生 (zh) (dànshēng)

• Dutch: ontstaan (nl)
• Finnish: saada alkunsa, syntyä (fi)
• French: apparaître (fr)
• German: entstehen (de)
• Hungarian: létrejön (hu), megszületik (hu), születik (hu), keletkezik (hu), kialakul (hu)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: шочаш (šočaš)

• Polish: zaistnieć (pl) pf, powstawać (pl) impf, powstać (pl) pf
• Portuguese: surgir (pt)
• Russian: возника́ть (ru) impf (voznikátʹ), возни́кнуть (ru) pf (vozníknutʹ)
• Swedish: bli till (sv), uppstå (sv)
• Tok Pisin: kamap
• Welsh: dod i fod, deor (cy)