different between had vs were

English

Etymology

From Middle English hadde (preterite), yhad (past participle), from Old English hæfde (first and third person singular preterite), ?ehæfd (past participle), from Proto-Germanic *habd-, past and past participle stem of *habjan? (“to have”), equivalent to have +? -ed. Cognate with Dutch had, German hatte, Swedish hade, Icelandic hafði.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæd/
• (had to): IPA^(key): /hæt/, IPA^(key): /hæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Verb

had

1. simple past tense and past participle of have.
2. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle).
   • 2011 April 15, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, London:

     Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?

3. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.
   • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

     To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute […].

   • 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 24:

     If all was good and fair we met, / This earth had been the Paradise / It never look’d to human eyes / Since our first Sun arose and set.

Derived terms

• had better
• had best

Adjective

had

1. (informal) Duped.

   We've been had.

2. (obsolete) Available.

Usage notes

Had, like that, is one of a very few words to be correctly used twice in succession in English, e.g. “He had had several operations previously.”

Related terms

• be had

Anagrams

• ADH, AHD, DHA, HDA, dah

Afrikaans

Verb

had

1. preterite of hê; had

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *satos, from *sh?-tó-, past participle of Proto-Indo-European *seh?- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.

Noun

had m (plural hadoù)

1. (botany) seed

Central Cagayan Agta

Pronoun

had

1. (interrogative) where

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech had, from Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??at]
• Hyphenation: had
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

had m anim

1. snake

Declension

Derived terms

• hád?
• hadí
• hadice

Related terms

• hadice f

Further reading

• had in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• had in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from Proto-Indo-European *keh?d- (“hate”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ad

Noun

had n (singular definite hadet, not used in plural form)

1. hate, hatred

Related terms

Verb

had

1. imperative of hade

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t
• IPA^(key): /??t/

Verb

had

1. singular past indicative of hebben

Hungarian

Etymology

From Old Hungarian hodu, from Proto-Ugric *kont?, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kunta. Cognate with Finnish kunta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?d]
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

had (plural hadak)

1. (military) army

Declension

Derived terms

• hadászat
• hadi

References

Further reading

• had in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Jersey Dutch

Verb

had

1. had
   • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:

     En kääd'l had twî jongers; […]

     A man had two sons. […]

Matal

Verb

had

1. to walk, go

References

Middle English

Noun

had

1. Alternative form of hod

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Noun

had m

1. snake

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: had

Further reading

• “had”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[1], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“state, condition, rank, person”). Akin to Old Norse heiðr (“dignity, honor”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (haidus, “manner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x??d/, [h??d]

Noun

h?d m (nominative plural h?das)

1. person, individual
2. a character
   • c. 1011, Byrhtferth, Manual

3. individuality
4. rank, status
   • 9th century, the Blickling Homilies, "The Third Sunday in Lent"

5. a person of the Trinity
   • 10th century, Ælfric, "Of the Catholic Faith"

6. honor, dignity
7. office (esp religious)
8. state, condition; nature, manner
9. gender
   • 10th century, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of the Holy Virgins"

10. (grammar) grammatical person
    • c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice

11. race; kindred, family; tribe, group
12. choir

Declension

Related terms

• -h?d

Descendants

• Middle English: hod, hode, had, hade, hede
  • English: hade, hede (obsolete)
  • Scots: hade (obsolete)

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??at/

Noun

had m (genitive singular hada, nominative plural hady, genitive plural hadov, declension pattern of dub)

1. snake, serpent

Declension

Derived terms

• hadí
• hadica f

Further reading

• had in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (?add).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /had/, [h??d?]

Noun

had (definite accusative haddi, plural hadler)

1. limit
2. boundary

Declension

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Noun

had m

1. snake, serpent

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sato-, from Proto-Indo-European *sh?-tó-, past participle of *seh?- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?d/

Noun

had m pl or m sg (singulative hedyn, plural hadau)

1. seed, seeds (collectively)
2. semen, sperm

Related terms

• hadu (“to sow”)

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English were, weren, from Old English w?re, w?ron, w?ren, from Proto-Germanic *w?z-, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wes-. More at was.

Pronunciation

stressed

• (UK) enPR: wûr, IPA^(key): /w??(?)/
• (UK, regional) enPR: wâr, IPA^(key): /w??(?)/
• (US) enPR: wûr, IPA^(key): /w?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: whirr (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

unstressed

• (UK) enPR: w?r, IPA^(key): /w?(?)/
• (US) enPR: w?r, IPA^(key): /w?/

Verb

were

1. second-person singular simple past indicative of be

2. first/second/third-person plural simple past indicative of be

3. first/second/third-person singular/plural simple present/past subjunctive of be

   I wish that it were Sunday.

   I wish that I were with you.

   • with “if” omitted, put first in an “if” clause:

     Were it simply that she wore a hat, I would not be upset at all. (= If it were simply...)

     Were father a king, we would have war. (= If father were a king,...)
4. (Northern England) first/third-person singular simple past indicative of be.

Synonyms

• (second-person singular past indicative, archaic) wast (used with “thou”)
• (second-person singular imperfect subjunctive, archaic) wert (used with “thou”)

See also

Etymology 2

From Middle English were, wer, see wer.

Noun

were (plural weres)

1. Alternative form of wer (“man; wergeld”)
   • 1799-1805, Sharon Trurner, History of the Anglo-Saxons

     Every man was valued at a certain sum, which was called his were.

   • 1867, John Lingard, T. Young, Introduction to English History [...] arranged [...] by T. Young, page 19:

     If by that he failed to pay or give security for the were, or fine, at which murder was legally rated; he might be put to death by the relatives of the murdered man.

   • 1908, Frederic Jesup Stimson, The Law of the Federal and State Constitutions of the United States, page 13:

     Written statutes busied themselves only with the amount of the were, or fine, or (for the first century after the Conquest) with the method of procedure.

Etymology 3

Back-formation from werewolf and other terms in were-, from the same source as English wer, were (“man”) (above).

Noun

were (plural weres)

1. (fandom slang) The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.

Anagrams

• Ewer, ewer, ewre, rewe, weer

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?r?

Verb

were

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of weren

Anagrams

• weer

Fijian

Noun

were

1. garden

Verb

were (wereca)

1. to garden, to weed (wereca specifically)

Irarutu

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *wai?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

were

1. water (clear liquid H?O)

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

Maku'a

Noun

were

1. water

References

• Aone van Engelenhoven, The position of Makuva among the Austronesian languages of Southwest Maluku and East Timor, in Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift, Pacific linguistics 601 (2009)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English w?re (second-person singular indicative and subjunctive past of wesan).

Alternative forms

• weer, weere, wer, wære

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??r(?)/, /?w?r(?)/

Verb

were

1. inflection of been:
   1. second-person singular indicative past
   2. singular subjunctive past

Descendants

• English: were (dialectal war, ware)
• Scots: war, waar, ware, waur, wur, wir

Etymology 2

From a conflation of Old English w?ron and Old English w?ren.

Verb

were

1. Alternative form of weren

Etymology 3

From Old English werre, wyrre.

Noun

were

1. Alternative form of werre

Mwani

Noun

were 5 (plural mawere)

1. breast

Northern Kurdish

Verb

were

1. second-person singular imperative of hatin

Onin

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *wai?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

were

1. water (clear liquid H?O)

Tocharian B

Noun

were ?

1. smell, odor, scent, aroma

Toro

Noun

were

1. day

References

• Roger Blench, The Toro language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2012)

Uruangnirin

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *wai?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

were

1. water (clear liquid H?O)