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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wert/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wert/#x1)
- Go on, go on--thou wert on the balcony, and went through the doorway, and then--” (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wert/#x2)
- "Mine! mine!" sounded around him, and within him; "I kissed thee when thou wert a little child. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wert/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.180/)
- [Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.118/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wert» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wert/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.