wurde

Meaning

first/third-person singular preterite of werden

werden

  1. (auxiliary, irregular) will, to be going to, forms the future tense
  2. (auxiliary, irregular, subjunctive) would; forms the subjunctive tense of most verbs
  3. (auxiliary, irregular) to be done; forms the passive voice
  4. (copulative, irregular) to become; to get; to grow; to turn
  5. (irregular) for one to begin or come to feel or experience
  6. (colloquial, copulative, irregular) to be; to happen; to occur (in the future)
  7. (colloquial, irregular) to be acceptable; to function correctly; to have the desired result or effect

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Concepts

became
was
were
Translations

suyo

mercancias

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvʊʁdə/
Etymology

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 its -u- and this in turn 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 obsolete sahe, fande for sah, fand). It may have survived here by analogy with the fellow auxiliary hatte.

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