"wurde" meaning in German

See wurde in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈvʊʁdə/ Audio: De-wurde.ogg , De-wurde2.ogg
Etymology: Formed by analogy with the plural wurden, from Middle High German wurden (singular wart). The verbs of this class normally generalise the singular vowel; as in sterben etc. we should thus expect werden, ward, warden, geworden. These forms are attested, but the plural usually retained the u-form and this -u- tended to be generalised to the singular. A possible reason is the a-forms’ phonetic similarity to war, waren. The final -e in wurde is unetymological; it goes back to a development in Early Modern German where -e was added to strong past tenses (after the subjunctive and/or by hypercorrection; hence archaic sahe, fande for sah, fand). It may have survived here by analogy with the fellow auxiliary hatte. Etymology templates: {{der|de|gmh|wurden}} Middle High German wurden Head templates: {{head|de|verb form}} wurde
  1. first/third-person singular preterite of werden Tags: first-person, form-of, preterite, singular, third-person Form of: werden Synonyms: ward [archaic], wurd [colloquial]
    Sense id: en-wurde-de-verb-VwOHwEGB Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, West Frisian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 74 6 8 5 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 78 6 7 4 5 Disambiguation of West Frisian entries with incorrect language header: 55 8 24 3 10

Alternative forms

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