esser

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈsɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈsə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [eˈseɾ]

esser (first-person singular present esso, first-person singular preterite essí, past participle essut); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. (regional) Alternative form of ésser

From Latin sum (French être, Italian essere, Portuguese ser, and Spanish ser).

• IPA^(key): /esˈser/

esser

1. to be
   • 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:

     Le anno passate 46 milliones statouniteses esseva povre.

     Last year 46 million U.S. Americans were poor.

• This conjugation also has present plural son, which normally does not exists in other verbs. First-person singular so and first-person plural somos also exists but rarely used.

esser (plural esseres)

1. being

esser (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of essere

• Serse, resse

esser n

1. (non-standard since 1984) indefinite plural of ess

esser

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of eiser

eiser in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022

From Latin sum.

esser

1. to be
   • La Nobla Leyçon, line 352

     Que crestian devon esser

     That we must be Christian

• Occitan: èsser

• easser (Sutsilvan)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse.

esser

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) to be