wert
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
- (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of be#English|be
- Why wert thou there?
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, To A Skylark, (first two lines of ode),
- "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, ..."
- (archaic) second-person singular simple past subjunctive of be#English|be
- If thou wert mine, I would be in heaven!
- 1611, The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version, (first & last usages),
- Job 8:6 "If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, ..."
- Revelation 3:15 "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot."
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