wees

Etymology
From, from. See Dutch.

Verb

 * 1) To be.

Usage notes

 * Unlike other Afrikaans verbs, the past participle of wees (') does not usually take the auxiliary verb ' to form the perfect tense unless a modal verb is being used: Ek sou baie kwaad gewees het as jy dit gedoen het. (“I would have been very angry if you had done this.”) Outside of this construction, het gewees is rarely encountered and is considered nonstandard. The actual perfect tense of wees is is gewees, but this form is also very rare, being usually replaced with either or was gewees. (The latter is formally a pluperfect, but is generally used without any semantic distinction.)

Etymology 1
From, from , from , of uncertain origin, with no solid cognates outside of Germanic; possibly ultimately from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, probably 🇨🇬 (in ).

Noun

 * 1) An orphan, person or animal having survived both parents.
 * 2) An orphaned one, left out of a sequence.

Etymology
From, which derives from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  to

Conjugation
Conjugation of wees