weren
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English weren, from Old English wǣron, plural past indicative of bēon, and wǣren, plural past subjunctive of bēon, equivalent to were + -en.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]weren
- (obsolete) plural simple past of be
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
- But sike fancies weren foolerie,
And broughten this Oake to this miserye.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Therein an hundred raunges weren pight,
And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
- 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 they weren first misget,
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch wēren, from Old Dutch *werien, from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną.
Verb
[edit]weren
- (transitive) to hold back, to keep out
- (reflexive) to defend oneself, to put up resistance
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of weren (weak) | ||||
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infinitive | weren | |||
past singular | weerde | |||
past participle | geweerd | |||
infinitive | weren | |||
gerund | weren n | |||
present tense | past tense | |||
1st person singular | weer | weerde | ||
2nd person sing. (jij) | weert, weer2 | weerde | ||
2nd person sing. (u) | weert | weerde | ||
2nd person sing. (gij) | weert | weerde | ||
3rd person singular | weert | weerde | ||
plural | weren | weerden | ||
subjunctive sing.1 | were | weerde | ||
subjunctive plur.1 | weren | weerden | ||
imperative sing. | weer | |||
imperative plur.1 | weert | |||
participles | werend | geweerd | ||
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: weer
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]weren
Middle Dutch
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Dutch *werien, from Proto-West Germanic *warjan.
Verb
[edit]wēren
- hold back, to keep out, to resist
- to prevent
- to protect
- to fight against, to oppose
- to object (in court)
- to refuse, to deny
Inflection
[edit]This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Dutch *werien, from Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan.
Verb
[edit]wēren
Inflection
[edit]This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
[edit]- Dutch: weren (obsolete)
Further reading
[edit]- “weren (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “weren (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “weren (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From a conflation of Old English wǣron, the plural indicative past of wesan (from Proto-Germanic *wēzun, the third-person plural indicative past of *wesaną) and Old English wǣren, the plural subjunctive past of wesan (from Proto-Germanic *wēzīn, the third-person plural subjunctive past of *wesaną).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]weren
- plural past indicative/subjunctive of been
- c. 1450, Richard the Redeless:
- And rafte was youre riott and rest, for youre daiez weren wikkid […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1450, Prose Merlin:
- Whan these thre kynges weren 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old English werian. Strong forms are analogical to beren, teren, etc.
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]weren (third-person singular simple present wereth, present participle werende, werynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle wered)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | (to) weren, were | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | were | wered, war, wer | |
2nd-person singular | werest | weredest, were, ware, war, wer | |
3rd-person singular | wereth | wered, war, wer | |
subjunctive singular | were | wered1, were1, ware1 | |
imperative singular | — | ||
plural2 | weren, were | wereden, werede, weren, were, waren, ware | |
imperative plural | wereth, were | — | |
participles | werynge, werende | wered, woren, worn, ywered |
1Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “wēren, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]weren
- Alternative form of werren
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms suffixed with -en (plural past)
- English terms with audio links
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- Rhymes:Dutch/eːrən
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːrən/2 syllables
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch
- Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
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- Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch
- Middle Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch
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- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
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- Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
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- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Middle English class 4 strong verbs
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