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Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryplural simple past of be
From Middle English weren, from Old English wǣron, plural past indicative of bēon, and wǣren, plural past subjunctive of bēon, equivalent to were + -en.
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