étaient

third-person plural imperfect indicative of être

1. to be
2. Used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of certain verbs (including all reflexive verbs)
3. to be (Used to form the passive voice)

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They had come without any tools.

More than twenty years after the first judgment the land was still returned.

His clothes were torn and covered in mud.

They were in the best position to take over the municipality of Berlin.

But they were blocked, the slightest step forward and it was death.

It was great, the local food was great.

Two additional singers were also drafted.

All the others were in their fifties at the time of the exercise of this mandate.

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