come into being

English

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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)