estar

A1Rank #131

to be (where or how something is)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#131 of 5,000

Conjugate estar - all tenses →

estar muerto/a

to be dead

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"estar" in example sentences

"estar" appears in 25,647 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 34 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

Muy bien. ¿Cómo estás tú?

Very good. How are you?

Tatoeba #464311

¿Cómo está él?

How is he?

Tatoeba #9446111

¿Cómo están todos?

How is everyone?

Tatoeba #576618

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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