Verb

1. Second-person singular simple past tense subjunctive of be (used with the pronoun "thou").

   If thou wert mine, I would be in heaven!

   • 1611, The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version, (first & last usages),

     Job 8:6 "If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, ..."

     Revelation 3:15 "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot."

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, To A Skylark, (first two lines of ode),

     "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, ..."

See also

• am
• are
• is
• art
• be
• being

• been
• beest
• was
• wast
• were