FromMiddle Englishweren, fromOld Englishwǣron, plural past indicative ofbēon, andwǣren, plural past subjunctive ofbēon, equivalent towere +-en.
weren
- (obsolete)plural simplepast ofbe
1889,John Gower, edited by Henry Morley,Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins: Being the Confessio Amantis:For of the falsé Moabites
Forth with the strength of Amonites
Of that theyweren first misget,
FromMiddle Dutchwēren, fromOld Dutchwerien, fromProto-West Germanic*warjan, fromProto-Germanic*warjaną.
weren
- (transitive) tohold back, tokeep out
- (reflexive) todefend oneself, to put upresistance
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
weren
- plural ofweer
FromOld Dutch*werien, fromProto-West Germanic*warjan.
wēren
- hold back, tokeep out, toresist
- toprevent
- toprotect
- tofight against, tooppose
- toobject (in court)
- torefuse, todeny
This verb needs aninflection-table template.
FromOld Dutchweron, fromProto-West Germanic*weʀēn.
wēren
- tocontinue,persist
This verb needs aninflection-table template.
- “weren (II)”, inVroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek,2000
- Verwijs, E.;Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “weren (I)”, inMiddelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff,→ISBN, page I
- Verwijs, E.;Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “weren (III)”, inMiddelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff,→ISBN, page III
From a conflation ofOld Englishwǣron, the plural indicative past ofwesan (fromProto-Germanic*wēzun, the third-person plural indicative past of*wesaną) andOld Englishwǣren, the plural subjunctive past ofwesan (fromProto-Germanic*wēzīn, the third-person plural subjunctive past of*wesaną).
- IPA(key): /ˈwɛ̞ːr(ə)n/,/ˈwɛ̝ːr(ə)n/,/ˈwɛr(ə)n/
weren
- pluralpastindicative/subjunctive ofbeen
c.1450,Richard the Redeless:
c.1450,Prose Merlin:Whan these thre kyngesweren abedde and at her ese that nyght, the storye seith that they lay till on the morn that thei ronge to messe right erly, for it was a litill afore Halowmesse.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
c.1450,The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers:And thanne he seide to other folkes that thei shulde seye somme goode thinges for to recomforte the lordes and the people, whichwerne in grete trouble as for the deth of the moste noble kinge that ever was.
FromOld Englishwerian. Strong forms are analogical toberen,teren, etc.
weren (third-person singular simple presentwereth,present participlewerende,werynge,first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participlewered)
- towear, beclothed with
Conjugation ofweren (weak in -ed orstrong class 4)| infinitive | (to)weren,were |
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| present tense | past tense |
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| 1st-personsingular | were | wered,war,wer |
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| 2nd-personsingular | werest | weredest,were1,ware1 |
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| 3rd-personsingular | wereth | wered,war,wer |
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| subjunctivesingular | were | wered2,were2,ware2 |
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| imperativesingular | — |
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| plural3 | weren,were | wereden,werede,weren,were,waren,ware |
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| imperativeplural | wereth,were | — |
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| participles | werynge,werende | wered,ywered |
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1 Later replaced by the 1st-/3rd-person singular orwarest,werest.
2 Later replaced by the indicative.
3 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
weren
- alternative form ofwerren
From Proto-Minahasan*bər2ən.[1] Cognate withTombuluweren,Tonsawangbelen.
weren
- (anatomy)eye
- ^Sneddon, James N (1978),Proto-Minahasan: phonology, morphology, and wordlist (B - No. 54), Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
- Aneke Sumarauw P; F.L. Cambey U.; Cornelis Tintingo; Baby Hakim; Wantania (1996),Kamus Bahasa Indonesia-Bahasa Tonsea, II (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
