Be

"Be" in km

កំពុង

kɑmpung

(auxiliary: used to form the continuous aspect of various tenses)

គឺ

kɨɨ

(used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent)

គឺ

kɨɨ

(intransitive, non-copulative (usually literary in English): to exist; to have real existence)

គឺ

kɨɨ

(to occur, take place)

ជា

ciə

(used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent)

ជា

ciə

(used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same)

ជា

ciə

(intransitive, non-copulative (usually literary in English): to exist; to have real existence)

ជា

ciə

(to occur, take place)

ត្រូវបាន

trɨv baan

(auxiliary: used to form the passive voice)

នៅ

nɨw

(to occupy a place)

នៅ

nɨw

(elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar)

មាន

miən

(intransitive, non-copulative (usually literary in English): to exist; to have real existence)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.