съм
Bulgarian
verb
Definitions
- to be
- (auxiliary) used with the past active aorist participle to form various perfect and renarrative tenses
- (auxiliary) used with the past active impefect participle to form some renarrative tenses
- (auxiliary) used with the past passive participle to form the passive voice
Etymology
Inherited from Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian бꙑти inherited from Proto-Slavic *byti.
Origin
Proto-Slavic
*byti
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European
- być Polish
- *byti Proto-Slavic
- být Czech
- biti Serbo-Croatian
- бити Serbo-Croatian
- сум Macedonian
- byť Slovak
- каб Belarusian
- biti Slovene
- бꙑти Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- бꙑти Old East Slavic
- byś Lower Sorbian
- *bū́tei Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *bū́ˀtei Proto-Balto-Slavic
- być Upper Sorbian
- bëc Kashubian