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"大阪ではタピオカを入れた飲み物を売る店がたくさん***できていて***、。。。”

I looked it up in the Weblio Japanese-English Dictionary (the most trustworthy
one online I suppose) and found this definition of できる (as below) the most
reasonable one for the sentence above. [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oh8Yh.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oh8Yh.jpg)

To my confusion, the definition and its example sentence do not seem like the
same thing.

The definition says "to come into being""to start to exist""to take form". But
then its example sentence is more like "to conceive (a child)" rather than "to
appear""to start to exist." Can it be applied to both physical objects and
living things? Or is it restricted to the latter?

Thank you all for taking the time to answer my question! I deeply deeply
appreciate it!
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I think できる in this sentence here means "begin to exist", am I correct?
Remember が is a **subject** marker.

> 2人の間に  
>  between the two (parents),
>
> 男の子 **が**  
>  a boy ( **←SUBJECT!** )
>
> できた。  
>  came into existence / started to exist / formed.

Hence "a boy was born". できる is an intransitive verb, whereas "to conceive" is
transitive. When you say "to conceive a child", the child is an **object** ,
but that's not how the original Japanese sentence is constructed.

There is a transitive verb
[もうける](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%84%B2%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B) that means "to
conceive (a child)". With this, you can say 彼女は男の子 **を** もうけた "She conceived a
boy". See 男の子 is now marked with を, an **object** marker.

In conclusion, there is no syntactical difference between 店ができる and 男の子ができる.
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