Wast vs Wert - What's the difference?
wast | wert |
(archaic)
* 1600 , William Shakespeare, As You Like It , Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),
* 1611 , The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version , (first & last usages),
* 1850 , , The Blessed Damozel , lines 97-99
(archaic)
* 1611 , The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version , (first & last usages),
* 1820 , Percy Bysshe Shelley, To A Skylark , (first two lines of ode),
In archaic terms the difference between wast and wert
is that wast is second-person singular past of lang=en while wert is form of be|lang=en.wast
English
Verb
- "Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born ..."
- Genesis 3:11 "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"
- Revelation 16:5 "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast , and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."
- Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!
- Yea, one wast thou with me
- That once of old.
References
* *See also
* am * are * is * art * be * being * been * beest * was * were * wert * vastwert
English
Verb
- Job 8:6 "If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, ..."
- Revelation 3:15 "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot."
- "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, ..."
