we'reとは

意味・読み方・使い方

短縮形

we're

1. 短縮形 of we are.

アナグラム

• Ewer, ewer, ewre, rewe, weer

発音

stressed

• (英国用法) enPR: wûr, IPA^(key): /wɜː(ɹ)/
• (英国用法, regional) enPR: wâr, IPA^(key): /wɛə(ɹ)/
• (米国用法) enPR: wûr, IPA^(key): /wɝ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Homophone: whirr (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

unstressed

• (英国用法) enPR: wər, IPA^(key): /wə(ɹ)/
• (米国用法) enPR: wər, IPA^(key): /wɚ/

動詞

were

1. second-person singular simple past indicative of be

   John, you were the only person to see him.

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

   We were about to leave.

   Mary and John, you were right.

   They were a fine group.

   They were to be the best of friends from that day on.

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,...)

   • 2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1 - 2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Maccabi would have been out of contention were it not for Stoke's profligacy, but their fortune eventually ran out as the visitors opened the scoring.

4. (Northern England) was.

同意語

• (second-person 単数形 past indicative, 古風な用法) wast (used with “thou”)
• (second-person 単数形 imperfect subjunctive, 古風な用法) wert (used with “thou”)

参考

語源 2

From Middle English were, wer, from 古期英語 wer, from Proto-Germanic *weraz, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“man”). Cognate with Latin vir (“man”). The original meaning of “man” is now preserved only in compounds like were wolf (“man-wolf”) and were gild (“man gold (payment)”).

名詞

were (複数形 weres)

1. (obsolete) A man, a husband
2. (obsolete) A fine for slaying a man; weregild.
   • (Can we date this quote by Bosworth かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

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

   • 2004, James Fitzjames Stephen, A General View of the Criminal Law of England, →ISBN, page 12-13:

     The consequence of conviction was, the payment to the person injured, of a were, or penalty, proportioned to the offencel but though this was the ordinary course, the recovery of the were was not the only object of the proceedings. "The were," says Reeve, "in cases of homicide, and the fines that were paid in cases of theft of various kinds, were only to redeem the offender from the proper punishment of the law, which was death, and that was reddemable, not only by paying money, but by undergoing some personal pains; hence it is that we hear a great variety of corporal punishments..."...

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

関連する語

アナグラム

• Ewer, ewer, ewre, rewe, weer

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /weə(ɹ)/

接頭辞

were-

1. man; most commonly used with animal names to indicate a person who changes shape into that animal.

派生語

関連する語

• were
• weregild (also wergeld)
• werewolf
• world

参考

• lycanthropy
• shapeshifting
• shapeshifter

アナグラム

• Ewer, ewer, ewre, rewe, weer