were

Past tense of be. Plural of was.

Word Structure

er = work, girl

Local Voices

Louisiana

Sentence Examples

We were so happy.

The boys were running.

Were you the first one there?

Common Phrases

As it were

Were it not for

Where were you?

Dashboard

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Rhymes

fur

her

sir


False Friends

here

there

where


Onset + Vowel Friends

word

work

world


Morphological Relatives

weren't


Semantic Relatives

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