wurde

Betekenis (Engels)

first/third-person singular preterite of werden

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈvʊʁdə/

Etymologie (Engels)

Formed by analogy with the plural wurden, from Middle High German wurden (singular wart). The verbs of this class normally generalise the singular vowel; as in sterben etc. we should thus expect werden, ward, warden, geworden. These forms are attested, but the plural usually retained the u-form and this -u- tended to be generalised to the singular. A possible reason is the a-forms’ phonetic similarity to war, waren. The final -e in wurde is unetymological; it goes back to a development in Early Modern German where -e was added to strong past tenses (after the subjunctive and/or by hypercorrection; hence archaic sahe, fande for sah, fand). It may have survived here by analogy with the fellow auxiliary hatte.

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werden

(auxiliary,irregular) will; to be going to; forms the future tense
(auxiliary,irregular,subjunctive) would; forms the subjunctive tense of most verbs
(auxiliary,irregular) to be done; forms the passive voice
(copulative,irregular) to become; to get; to grow; to turn
(irregular) for one to begin or come to feel or experience
(colloquial,copulative,irregular) to be, to happen, to occur (in the future)
(colloquial,irregular) to be going to work

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