See ward in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
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"word": "wurde"
},
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"word": "first/third-person singular preterite of werden"
}
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"english": "And God said: \"Let there be light.\" And there was light.",
"ref": "Genesis 1:3",
"text": "Und Gott sprach: »Es werde Licht!« Und es ward Licht.",
"translation": "And God said: \"Let there be light.\" And there was light.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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53,
57
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],
"ref": "1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 477:",
"text": "Wohingegen Diederich von tiefem Wohlgefallen erfüllt ward durch die Teckel des Kaisers, die vor den Schleppen der Hofdamen keine Achtung zu haben brauchten.",
"type": "quotation"
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19,
23
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27,
33
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],
"english": "Never did my mother's hair become white.",
"ref": "1952, Paul Celan, “Espenbaum [Aspen Tree]”, in Mohn und Gedächtnis, line 2:",
"text": "Meiner Mutter Haar ward nimmer weiß.",
"translation": "Never did my mother's hair become white.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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],
"id": "en-ward-de-verb-QOiQEbhJ",
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"ipa": "/vart/"
},
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"ipa": "[vaʁt]"
},
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},
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"ipa": "[vaːt]"
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"word": "ward"
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"english": "And God said: \"Let there be light.\" And there was light.",
"ref": "Genesis 1:3",
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"translation": "And God said: \"Let there be light.\" And there was light.",
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53,
57
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"ref": "1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 477:",
"text": "Wohingegen Diederich von tiefem Wohlgefallen erfüllt ward durch die Teckel des Kaisers, die vor den Schleppen der Hofdamen keine Achtung zu haben brauchten.",
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"english": "Never did my mother's hair become white.",
"ref": "1952, Paul Celan, “Espenbaum [Aspen Tree]”, in Mohn und Gedächtnis, line 2:",
"text": "Meiner Mutter Haar ward nimmer weiß.",
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