Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weren

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English

Syllables: weren
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

plural simple past of be

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"But sike fancies weren foolerie, And broughten this Oake to this miserye."
"Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, And hundred fornaces all burning bright;"
"For of the falsé Moabites Forth with the strength of Amonites Of that they weren first misget,"

Etymology

From Middle English weren, from Old English wǣron, plural past indicative of bēon, and wǣren, plural past subjunctive of bēon, equivalent to were + -en.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: weren, wǣron
Suffix: were

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

wern (alternative) wurn (alternative, dialectal)

Questions

What does weren mean?: plural simple past of be
Where does weren come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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