wees

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English

Noun

wees

  1. plural of wee

Verb

wees

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wee

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

  • wies (Cape Afrikaans)

Etymology

From Dutch wezen, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną. See Dutch zijn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viəs/
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Verb

wees (present is, present participle synde, past was, past participle gewees)

  1. To be.
    Ek was gister dronk gewees.
    I was drunk yesterday.
    Hy kon al 'n dokter gewees het.
    He could have been a doctor by now.

Usage notes

  • Unlike other Afrikaans verbs, the past participle of wees (gewees) does not usually take the auxiliary verb het to form the perfect tense unless a modal verb is being used: Ek sou baie kwaad gewees het as jy dit gedoen het. (“I would have been very angry if you had done this.”) Outside of this construction, het gewees is rarely encountered and is considered nonstandard. The actual perfect tense of wees is is gewees, but this form is also very rare, being usually replaced with either was or was gewees. (The latter is formally a pluperfect, but is generally used without any semantic distinction.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of wees ("to be")
infinitive wees
present past
indicative is was
subjunctive1 sy ware
participle synde gewees
1. Rarely used.


Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wêse, from Old Dutch wēso, from Proto-West Germanic *waiso, of uncertain origin, with no solid cognates outside of Germanic; possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (“widow”).

Cognate with German Waise, Middle Low German wêse, probably Old English *wāsa (in wuduwāsa).

Noun

wees m or f (plural wezen, diminutive weesje n)

  1. An orphan, person or animal having survived both parents.
  2. An orphaned one, left out of a sequence.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

wees

  1. imperative of zijn
  2. imperative of wezen
Derived terms

Verb

wees

  1. singular past indicative of wijzen

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “wees1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wesa, which derives from Proto-West Germanic *wesan, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną.

Verb

wees

  1. (Föhr-Amrum, Heligoland) to be

Conjugation

Conjugation of wees
infinitive I wees
infinitive II tu weesen
past participle weesen
imperative singular wees
imperative plural wees'em
  present past
1st-person singular ik san ik wiar
2nd-person singular dü beest dü wiarst
3rd-person singular hi/jü/hat as hi/jü/hat wiar
1st-person dual wat san wat wiar
2nd-person dual jat san jat wiar
1st-person plural wi san wi wiar
2nd-person plural jam san jam wiar
3rd-person plural jo san jo wiar
  perfect pluperfect
1st-person singular ik san weesen ik wiar weesen
2nd-person singular dü beest weesen dü wiarst weesen
3rd-person singular hi/jü/hat as weesen hi/jü/hat wiar weesen
1st-person dual wat san weesen wat wiar weesen
2nd-person dual jat san weesen jat wiar weesen
1st-person plural wi san weesen wi wiar weesen
2nd-person plural jam san weesen jam wiar weesen
3rd-person plural jo san weesen jo wiar weesen
  future (skel) future (wel)
1st-person singular ik skal wees ik wal wees
2nd-person singular dü skääl wees dü wääl wees
3rd-person singular hi/jü/hat skal wees hi/jü/hat wal wees
1st-person dual wat skel wees wat wel wees
2nd-person dual jat skel wees wat wel wees
1st-person plural wi skel wees wi wel wees
2nd-person plural jam skel wees jam wel wees
3rd-person plural jo skel wees jo wel wees

Spanish

Noun

wees m pl or f pl

  1. plural of we
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