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German
Pronunciation
Verb
wär
- (informal or poetic) Alternative form of wäre
- wenn ich ein Junge wär ― if I were a boy
Usage notes
- Note that, unlike wär, the contracted forms du wärst and ihr wärt are fully standard (alongside wärest, wäret).
Tocharian A
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *wär (whence also Tocharian B war), from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”) through a regular (endocentric) thematicization via *udrom.
Noun
wär ?
- water
See also
- āp (“body of water, river”)