wert

«wert» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: were (with you) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

were (with you)

part of speech

verb, past tense of be, with thou (second person singular)

meaning for a pupil

You were; a form of "be" used with "thou". tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "you were".

examples

• Rest there in peace, till thou art a wiser man than thou wert.’ (Grimms' Fairy Tales) tree →
• Go on, go on--thou wert on the balcony, and went through the doorway, and then--” (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →
• "Mine! mine!" sounded around him, and within him; "I kissed thee when thou wert a little child. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

tests

manual 5; corpora 14 (Torah 0, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• If thou wert pure and upright; surely now He would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
• Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wert» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.