"come into being" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-come into being.ogg [Australia] Forms: comes into being [present, singular, third-person], coming into being [participle, present], came into being [past], come into being [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|come<,,came,come> into being}} 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. Tags: idiomatic Hypernyms: exist Hyponyms: actualize, concretize, effigiate, embody, incarnate, objectify, personify, realize, reify, thingify Related terms: bring into being, happen Translations (start to exist): törəmək (Azerbaijani), 形成 (xíngchéng) (Chinese Mandarin), 產生 (Chinese Mandarin), 产生 (chǎnshēng) (Chinese Mandarin), 誕生 (Chinese Mandarin), 诞生 (dànshēng) (Chinese Mandarin), шочаш (šočaš) (Eastern Mari), saada alkunsa (Finnish), syntyä (Finnish), apparaître (French), entstehen (German), létrejön (Hungarian), megszületik (Hungarian), születik (Hungarian), keletkezik (Hungarian), kialakul (Hungarian), zaistnieć [perfective] (Polish), powstawać [imperfective] (Polish), powstać [perfective] (Polish), surgir (Portuguese), возника́ть (voznikátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), возни́кнуть (vozníknutʹ) [perfective] (Russian), bli till (Swedish), uppstå (Swedish), kamap (Tok Pisin)
    Sense id: en-come_into_being-en-verb-zFPyUedz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations Synonyms: appear, form, materialize, take shape, come into being, appear [figuratively], arise, be born, come into being [idiomatic], emerge [figuratively], form, get up, inform [archaic], materialize, originate, pop up [idiomatic], spring, spring to life [idiomatic], spring up, surface, take form, take shape [figuratively, often], upspring

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "start to exist",
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      "roman": "voznikátʹ",
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  "word": "come into being"
}

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