come into being

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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)

(idiomatic) To form; to start to exist.
Sociologists would like to study how this phenomenon came into being.

Synonyms

appear, form, materialize, take shape; see also Thesaurus:come into being

Translations

start to exist

Azerbaijani: törəmək (az)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 形成 (zh) (xíngchéng), 產生 (zh), 产生 (zh) (chǎnshēng), 誕生 (zh), 诞生 (zh) (dànshēng)
Finnish: saada alkunsa, syntyä (fi)
French: apparaître (fr)

German: entstehen (de)
Portuguese: surgir (pt)
Russian: возника́ть (ru) impf (voznikátʹ), возни́кнуть (ru) pf (vozníknutʹ)
Tok Pisin: kamap