wees
English edit
Noun edit
wees
Verb edit
wees
- third-person singular simple present indicative of wee
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
Alternative forms edit
- wies (Cape Afrikaans)
Etymology edit
From Dutch wezen, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną. See Dutch zijn.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
wees (present is, present participle synde, past was, past participle gewees)
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
Conjugation of wees ("to be")
infinitive | wees | |
present | past | |
indicative | is | was |
subjunctive1 | sy | ware |
participle | synde | gewees |
1. Rarely used. |
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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”).[1]
Cognate with German Waise, Middle Low German wêse, probably Old English *wāsa (in wuduwāsa).
Noun edit
wees m or f (plural wezen, diminutive weesje n)
Derived terms edit
- halfwees, halve wees
- verweesd
- volle wees
- weeshuis
- weesjongen
- weeskamer
- weeskind
- weesmeester
- weesvader
- weesziekte
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
wees
- imperative of zijn
- imperative of wezen
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
wees
References edit
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “wees1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
North Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian wesa, which derives from Proto-West Germanic *wesan, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną.
Verb edit
wees
- (Föhr-Amrum, Heligoland) to be
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of wees
infinitive I | wees | |
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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 edit
Noun edit
wees m pl or f pl