was

Etymology
From, from , from , (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (dated, wie is generally preferred today), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from , whence also. The paradigm of “to be” has been since the time of Proto-Germanic a synthesis of three originally distinct verb stems. The infinitive form is from. The forms and  are both derived from. Lastly, the past forms starting with w- such as was and are from.

Pronunciation




Verb

 * 1)  ; were.
 * 2)  ; were.
 * 3)  ; were.
 * 1)  ; were.
 * 2)  ; were.
 * 3)  ; were.
 * 1)  ; were.
 * 2)  ; were.
 * 3)  ; were.
 * 1)  ; were.
 * 2)  ; were.
 * 3)  ; were.
 * 1)  ; were.
 * 2)  ; were.
 * 1)  ; were.

Noun

 * 1) wax

Verb

 * 1) to wash

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
Slang variant of

Pronoun

 * 1)  nothing; none

Adjective

 * 1)  absent

Etymology 1
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) laundry, clothes that need to be washed, or just have been washed.

Etymology 2
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) wax
 * 2) growth

Etymology 3
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From, from , , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬 , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Pronoun

 * 1)  what
 * 2)  which
 * 3)  that, which
 * 4)  that, which
 * 5)  something, anything
 * 6)  why (with emphasis, astonishment or disapproval)
 * 1)  that, which
 * 2)  something, anything
 * 3)  why (with emphasis, astonishment or disapproval)
 * 1)  something, anything
 * 2)  why (with emphasis, astonishment or disapproval)
 * 1)  why (with emphasis, astonishment or disapproval)
 * 1)  why (with emphasis, astonishment or disapproval)

Usage notes

 * Was is colloquially used with prepositions, chiefly but not exclusively in southern regions. Otherwise it is generally replaced with a pronominal adverb containing (or in a few cases ). Hence: Womit hast du das gemacht?, instead of Mit was hast du das gemacht?, and  instead of wegen was.
 * The genitive case, and the dative case if necessary for clearness, can be paraphrased by means of . Possessive genitives are more commonly paraphrased with . It is also possible to use the genitive form, but it wouldn't be used in questions such as Wessen ist das? because here it would be understood as the genitive form of.
 * The colloquial was meaning "something" can only be the first word in a sentence if followed by an adjective: Was Wichtiges fehlt noch. Otherwise the full form etwas must be used: Etwas fehlt noch. The reason for this is that the latter sentence could be misinterpreted as a question if was were used.

Derived terms




Determiner

 * 1)  what; what kind of

Usage notes

 * In the dative and genitive feminine, the inflected form occurred.

Adverb

 * 1)  a little, somewhat
 * 2)  why, what for
 * 1)  why, what for

Noun

 * 1) bear

Etymology
From, from , , from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  what
 * 2)  what
 * 3)  something, anything
 * 1)  something, anything
 * 1)  something, anything

Verb

 * 1) apocopated form of ,
 * 2) apocopated form of ,
 * 3) apocopated form of ,
 * 1) apocopated form of ,
 * 2) apocopated form of ,

Usage notes
Notes on the verb węsen (to be): In recent times (~1800) the old subjunctive wer is used in place of was by many speakers. This might be the old subjunctive which is now used as a preterite or a reduction of weren, which is the preterite plural indicative of the verb. It might also be an imitation of the High German cognate war. Many smaller dialectal clusters do this, but no dialect does it. That means: even though there are many regions within e.g. Lower Saxony that use wer for was, maybe even the majority, there is no straight connection between them, i.e. which form is used can depend on preference, speaker and specific region. Due to this "one town this way, one town that way"-nature of the situation no form can be named "standard" for a greater dialect, such as Low Saxon.

Etymology
.

Pronoun

 * 1) ; your

Noun

 * 1) water
 * 2) stream, river

Etymology 1
From (first/third person singular indicative past of ), from  (first/third person singular indicative past of ).

Etymology
From, from , , from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  what

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) west

Verb

 * 1) fuck

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a message sent or received over

Etymology
.

Pronoun

 * 1)  nothing; none

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) angel; any supernatural creature in heaven according to Christian theology