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- [wurt; unstressed wert]
- /wɜrt; unstressed wərt/
- /wɜːt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [wurt; unstressed wert]
- /wɜrt; unstressed wərt/
Definitions of wert word
- verb wert a 2nd person singular pt. indicative and subj. of be. 1
- noun wert (archaic) second-person singular simple past subjunctive of be. 1
- intransitive verb wert be 0
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Origin of wert
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English been, Old English bēon (bēo- (akin to Old Frisian, Old High German bim, German bin, Old Saxon bium, biom (I) am, Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon būan, Old Norse būa reside, Latin fuī (I) have been, Greek phy- grow, become, Old Irish boí (he) was, Sanskrit bhávati (he) becomes, is, Lithuanian búti to be, OCS byti, Persian būd was)) + -n infinitive suffix. See am, is, are1, was, were
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Parts of speech for Wert
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
wert popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 79% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
wert usage trend in Literature
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