wert

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   archaic second-person singular past or subjunctive of 'be' (thou wert)

   O, that thou wert here to see this dawn.

Archaic second-person singular past/subjunctive of 'be', from Old English wǣre, the subjunctive of wesan ('to be'). The final -t was added by analogy with other second-person forms like art and shalt.

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