Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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exist

/ɪɡˈzɪst/ verb

Forms exists existing existed existest existedst existeth

verb (intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality

Synonyms

be be a thing consist subsist survive live

Antonyms

cease unexist void

Etymology

From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.

Webster’s 1913

verb To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
verb To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

Etymology [L. existere, exsistere, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. exister. See Stand.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “exist”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “exist” (best matches first).

समस् sam-as -asti, to be, exist.
विवृत्सत् vivṛtsat wishing to be or exist.
वर्तित vartita caused to be or exist, brought about, accomplished.
वर्तयत् vartayat causing to turn; causing to be or exist; living, subsisting; dwelling, abiding.
प्रादुरस् prādur-as asti, etc., to be apparent or evident, to be manifest; to appear, arise, exist.
समुद्भू sam-ud-bhū -bhavati, etc., to spring up from, arise, rise, be produced, exist; to increase, augment.
अजननि a-janani privation of birth, cessation of existence; ajananir astu tasya, ‘may he cease to exist !’
सम्प्रजन् sam-pra-jan -jāyate, etc., to be produced, spring up, arise, come into existence; to exist, be; to be born again.

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