być

1. to be indicates sameness or membership in a class [+nominative or instrumental]
2. to be auxilary verb used for predication [+adjective]
3. in future tense, forms future tense of imperfective verbs [+infinitive or verb in past tense]
4. in past tense, forms pluperfect tense [+verb in past tense]
5. to be indicates location, there be

były

• Adj

  1. former, previous (holding a certain function or position in the past but no longer so at the time of speaking)
  2. former, previous (of nations; existing in the past but no longer so at the time of speaking, or now being in a different place or having a different form)

• Noun
• Verb