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Galician
Pronunciation
Verb
está
- inflection of estar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Non sabes que está ocupado?- Don't you know he is busy?
- inflection of estar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “estar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “estar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “está”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Portuguese
- tá (eye dialect or nonstandard)
- està (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin stat.
Pronunciation
Verb
está
- inflection of estar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
- inflection of estar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈta/
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: es‧tá
Verb
está
- inflection of estar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
- second-person singular voseo imperative