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waren

Meaning

first/third-person plural preterite of sein

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vaːrən/

sein

1. to be
2. to feel (to experience a condition)
3. to feel like, to be in the mood for
4. forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs
5. to exist; there to be; to be alive
6. (colloquial) to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.)
7. to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag

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Sentences

In allen Vorrunden waren sie
👩

unter den erste
1st

drei
3

.

In all preliminary rounds, they were in the top three.

Bereits zwei
2

Monate nach der Veröffentlichung waren insgesamt vier
4

Millionen Exemplare verkauft worden .

Already two months after publication, a total of four million copies had been sold.

Die Zahnwurzeln waren zylinderförmig.

The tooth roots were cylindrical.

Die Siedler waren vermutlich Tschechen , es können aber auch Deutsche darunter gewesen sein .

The settlers were probably Czechs, but there may also have been Germans among them.

Auf dem Elternabend waren irgendwie alle überzeugt davon , dass ihr Kind
🧒

hochbegabt sei .

At the parents' evening, everyone was somehow convinced that their child was highly gifted.

Die Trakturen waren mechanisch .

The tracts were mechanical.

Immerhin waren sie
👩

sich der Bedeutung und der Dringlichkeit dieses Vorschlags bewusst .

They at least clearly understood the importance and urgency of this proposal.

Das waren noch Zeiten , als man
1️⃣

Datenträger mit einem Streifen Tesafilm wieder
🔁

reparieren konnte !

Those were still times when you could repair data carriers with a strip of Tesafilm!

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