weren
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English weren, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English wǣron, plural past indicative of bēon, wǣren, plural past subjunctive of bēon, equivalent to were + -en.
Verb
weren
- (obsolete) plural simple past of be
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
- But sike fancies weren foolerie,
- And broughten this Oake to this miserye.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto VII:
- 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,
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch wēren, from Old Dutch *werien, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną.
Verb
weren
- (transitive) to hold back, to keep out
Inflection
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
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
weren
- (deprecated template usage) Plural form of weer
Middle Dutch
Etymology 1
From Old Dutch *werien, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną.
Verb
wēren
- to 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
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Old Dutch *werien, from Proto-Germanic *wazjaną.
Verb
wēren
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “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
Etymology 1
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
Pronunciation
Verb
weren
- Template:enm-plural past of
- c. 1450 Richard the Redeless
- And rafte was youre riott and rest, for youre daiez weren wikkid […]
- 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.
- c. 1450 Richard the Redeless
- Template:enm-plural subjunctive past of
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Old French guerrier, guerrer.
Verb
weren
- Alternative form of werren
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