【was】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

See also: wäs, waš, wąs, wäs-, Waś, and Wąs

英语(English)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Was (disambiguation)

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替代形式(Alternative forms)

wus
wuz

词源(Etymology)

From Middle English was, from Old English wæs, from Proto-Germanic *was, (compare Scots was, West Frisian was (dated, wie is generally preferred today), Dutch was, Low German was, German war, Swedish var), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to reside”), whence also vestal. The paradigm of “to be” has been since the time of Proto-Germanic a synthesis of three originally distinct verb stems. The infinitive form be is from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become”). The forms is and are are both derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”). Lastly, the past forms starting with w- such as was and were are from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to reside”).

发音(Pronunciation)

(stressed)

(UK, General New Zealand) enPR: wŏz, wŭz, IPA^(key): /wɒz/, /wʌz/
(US) enPR: wŭz, wŏz, IPA^(key): /wʌz/, /wɑz/
(General Australian) enPR: wŏz, IPA^(key): /wɔz/
Audio (US)
Rhymes: -ʌz, -ɒz

(unstressed)

(UK, US) enPR: wəz, IPA^(key): /wəz/
Audio (US)
(in the phrase “I was there.”)

动词(Verb)

was

first-person singular simple past indicative of be.
I was castigated and scorned.
third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
It was a really humongous slice of cake.
- 1915, John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, I:
  I killed my poor father, Tuesday was a week, for doing the like of that.
- 1996 August 1, George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire; 1), HarperCollins, →ISBN, OCLC 654895986, page 16:
  He saw it clear enough, now that the lordling had pointed it out. “They couldn't have froze. Not if the Wall was weeping. It wasn't cold enough."
(now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
There was three of them there.
- 1611, The Holy Bible,[…] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker,[…], OCLC 964384981, Gen 40:17:
  And in the vppermoſt baſket there was of all maner of †bake-meats foꝛ Pharaoh,and the birds did eat them out of the baſket vpon my head.
(now colloquial or nonstandard) second-person singular simple past indicative of be.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 33:
  You was pleased to cast a favourable eye upon me.
- 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:
  "Was you outside the Bank of England, sir?"
(colloquial, nonstandard) first-person plural simple past indicative of be
- 2001, Darrel Rachel, The Magnolias Still Bloom, page 104:
  “What happened here, Hadley?” the chief asked. “We was robbed, damn it, we was robbed.”

衍生词(Derived terms)

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变位词(Anagrams)

ASW, AWS, SAW, Saw, aws, saw

Afrikaans

名词(Noun)

was (uncountable)

wax

动词(Verb)

was

past of wees

动词(Verb)

was (present was, present participle wassende, past participle gewas)

to wash

Banda

名词(Noun)

was

water

来源参考(References)

"Elat, Kei Besar" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

was

Wikipedia ^nl

发音(Pronunciation)

IPA^(key): /ʋɑs/
Audio
Rhymes: -ɑs

词源1(Etymology 1)

Cognate with English wash.

名词(Noun)

was m (plural wassen, diminutive wasje n)

laundry, clothes that need to be washed, or just have been washed.

动词(Verb)

was

first-person singular present indicative of wassen
imperative of wassen

词源2(Etymology 2)

From Old Dutch *was, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą. Cognate with German Wachs, English wax, Danish voks, Swedish vax.

名词(Noun)

was m or n (plural wassen)

wax
growth

动词(Verb)

was

first-person singular present indicative of wassen
imperative of wassen

衍生词(Derived terms)

词源3(Etymology 3)

Cognate with English was.

动词(Verb)

was

singular past indicative of zijn
singular past indicative of wezen

变位词(Anagrams)

swa

German

替代形式(Alternative forms)

wat (colloquial in western and parts of northern Germany)

词源(Etymology)

From Middle High German waz, from Old High German waz, hwaz, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Cognate with Bavarian was, wås, Silesian German woas (was), Dutch wat, English what, Danish hvad. More at what.

发音(Pronunciation)

IPA^(key): /vas/
(Bavaria)
Rhymes: -as

代词(Pronoun)

was

(interrogative) what
Was machst du heute?
What are you doing today?
(relative) which (referring to the entire preceding clause)
Sie tanzte gut, was er bewunderte.
She was a good dancer, which he admired.
(relative) that, which (referring to das, alles, etwas, nichts, and neuter substantival adjectives)
Das ist alles, was ich weiß.
That's all that I know.

Das ist das Beste, was mir passieren konnte.
That's the best that could have happened to me.
(relative, colloquial) that, which (referring to neuter singular nouns, instead of standard das)
Siehst du das weiße Haus, was renoviert wird?
Do you see that white house, which is being renovated?
(indefinite, colloquial) something, anything (instead of standard etwas)
Ich hab was gefunden.
I've found something.
- 2017, Simone Meier, Fleisch, Kein & Aber 2018, p. 39:
  Er wollte Anna was antun.
  He wanted to do something to Anna.

用法注意(Usage notes)

Was is colloquially used with prepositions, chiefly but not exclusively in southern regions. Otherwise it is generally replaced with a pronominal adverb containing wo- (or in a few cases wes-). Hence: Womit hast du das gemacht? (“With what did you do that?”), instead of Mit was hast du das gemacht?, and weswegen instead of wegen was.
The genitive case, and the dative case if necessary for clearness, can be paraphrased by means of welcher Sache (“what thing”). Possessive genitives are more commonly paraphrased with wovon (“of what”).
The colloquial was meaning "something" can only be the first word in a sentence if followed by an adjective: Was Wichtiges fehlt noch. (“Something important is missing.”) Otherwise the full form etwas must be used: Etwas fehlt noch. (“Something is missing.”) The reason for this is that the latter sentence could be misinterpreted as a question if was were used.

同义词(Synonyms)

(why): warum; wieso; weshalb

衍生词(Derived terms)

Determiner

was

(archaic) what; what kind of
- - 1718, Johann Caspar Schwartz, Johann Caspar Schwartzens Fünfftes Dutzend Wund-artzneyischer Anmerckungen von vielerley Arten der Geschwülste und Geschwüre, Hamburg, page 97:
    [...] denen Thieren und Gewächsen aber, von was Arten und Geschlechten selbige auch nur immer seyn mögen, [...]
  - 1742, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Versuch einer Critischen Dichtkunst, Leipzig, page 442:
    Held August, du kühner Krieger! / Du bist der beglückte Sieger, / Vor, und in, und nach dem Fall. / Auf was Arten, auf was Weisen, / Soll man deine Thaten preisen / Hier und da, und überall?
  - 1786, Johann Michael Schosulan, Gründlicher Unterricht für das Landvolk: Wie und auf was Weise jedermann seinen etrunkenen, erhängten, erstickten, erfrornen, von Hitze verschmachteten und von Blitz berührten unglücklichen Nebenmenschen Hülfe leisten, der Retter aber für sein eigenes Leben sich selbst sicher stellen solle., Wien, title:
    Wie und auf was Weise jedermann seinen [...] Nebenmenschen Hülfe leisten [...] solle.

用法注意(Usage notes)

In the dative and genitive feminine, the inflected form waser occurred.

同义词(Synonyms)

was für

副词(Adverb)

was

(colloquial) a little, somewhat
Ich komm was später.
I'll arrive a little later.
(interrogative, colloquial) why, what for
Synonyms: warum, wieso, weshalb

Was bist du heute so stumm?
Why are you so silent today?

Gothic

罗马化(Romanization)

was

Romanization of 𐍅𐌰𐍃

Gros Ventre

名词(Noun)

was

bear

Hunsrik

词源(Etymology)

From Middle High German waz, from Old High German waz, hwaz, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod.

发音(Pronunciation)

IPA^(key): /vas/

代词(Pronoun)

was

(interrogative) what
Was machst-du?
What are you doing?
(relative) what
Was-ich net esse, essd de Hund.
What I don't eat, the dog eats.
(indefinite) something, anything
Noch was?
Anything else?

查看更多(See also)

etwas

查看更多(Further reading)

Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Low German

动词(Verb)

was

first-person singular simple past indicative of węsen
third-person singular simple past indicative of węsen
apocopated form of wasse (“wash”), second-person singular imperative of wassen (mainly used in the Netherlands, equivalent to other dialects' wasche/waske)
apocopated form of wasse (“wax”), second-person singular imperative of wassen
apocopated form of wasse (“grow”), second-person singular imperative of wassen

用法注意(Usage notes)

Notes on the verb węsen (to be): In recent times (~1800) the old subjunctive wer is used in place of was by many speakers. This might be the old subjunctive which is now used as a preterite or a reduction of weren, which is the preterite plural indicative of the verb. It might also be an imitation of the High German cognate war. Many smaller dialectal clusters do this, but no dialect does it. That means: even though there are many regions within e.g. Lower Saxony that use wer for was, maybe even the majority, there is no straight connection between them, i.e. which form is used can depend on preference, speaker and specific region. Due to this "one town this way, one town that way"-nature of the situation no form can be named "standard" for a greater dialect, such as Low Saxon.

Lower Sorbian

发音(Pronunciation)

IPA^(key): [was]

代词(Pronoun)

was

Mayangna

名词(Noun)

was

water
stream, river

来源参考(References)

Smith, Ethnogeography of the Mayangna of Nicaragua, in Ethno- and historical geographic studies in Latin America: essays honoring William V. Davidson (2008), page 88: The location of 46 settlements from this list containing the term ”was" —meaning "water" or "stream" — were obtained[.]

Middle Dutch

动词(Verb)

was

first/third-person singular past indicative of wēsen

中古英语(Middle English)

词源(Etymology)

From Old English wæs (first/third person singular indicative past of wesan), from Proto-Germanic *was (first/third person singular indicative past of *wesaną).

动词(Verb)

was

First and third-person singular past indicative form of been
(dialectal) Second-person singular past indicative form of been
(dialectal) Plural past indicative form of been

派生词(Descendants)

English: was
Scots: was

Pennsylvania German

词源(Etymology)

Compare German was, Dutch wat, English what.

代词(Pronoun)

was

(interrogative) what

Polish

发音(Pronunciation)

IPA^(key): /vas/

代词(Pronoun)

was

Scots

名词(Noun)

was

plural of wa

Seychellois Creole

词源(Etymology)

From French ouest

名词(Noun)

was

west

来源参考(References)

Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Somali

动词(Verb)

was

fuck

Spanish

词源(Etymology)

From WhatsApp

名词(Noun)

was m (plural was)

A message sent or received over WhatsApp

关联词(Related terms)

wasapear

Tok Pisin

词源(Etymology)

From English watch.

动词(Verb)

was

angel; any supernatural creature in heaven according to Christian theology
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:24:
  God i rausim pinis man na meri, na em i makim ol strongpela ensel bilong sanap na was i stap long hap sankamap bilong gaden Iden. Na tu em i putim wanpela bainat i gat paia i lait long en na i save tanim tanim long olgeta hap. Oltaim ol dispela ensel wantaim dispela bainat i save was i stap, nogut wanpela man i go klostu long dispela diwai bilong givim laip.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

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Welsh

名词(Noun)

was

Soft mutation of gwas.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gwas	was	ngwas	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.