weze
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eːzə
Verb edit
weze
Norman edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French oisel, from Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis.
Noun edit
weze m
Saterland Frisian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian wesa, from Proto-West Germanic *wesan. Cognates include West Frisian wêze and Dutch wezen.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
weze
- (copulative) to be
- (auxiliary) Used to form the present continuous, together with a present participle.
- (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect tense of the passive voice, together with a past participle.
- (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect tense of the active voice of some verbs, together with a past participle.
- 2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:22:
- Dut aal is geskäin, dät dät uutkume skuul, wät die Here truch dän Profeet kweden häd;
- This all has happened, so that it would come true, what the Lord through the profet has said.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of weze (irregular)
| Grúundfoarme | weze | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | tou wezen | ||||||
| Present tense | Past tense | ||||||
| iek | bän | wie | sunt | iek | waas | wie | wieren |
| du | bääst | jie | sunt | du | wierst | jie | wieren |
| hie/ju/dät | is | jo | sunt | hie/ju/dät | waas | jo | wieren |
| Present participle | Imperative | Auxiliary | Past participle | ||||
| wezend | Singular | wäs | weze, häbe | wezen, weden, ween | |||
| Plural | wezet | ||||||