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GrammarJLPT N5
was
Expression

Definitions

  1. 1. was
  2. 2. were
These are the plain and polite past tense forms of the copula, equivalent to "was" or "were" in English. They are used to describe what something was like in the past, turning present-tense descriptions into past-tense ones.

Grammar

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Example sentences

Initial · simple i+1

That was a bird!

Sentence 1

But that explanation was weird.

Sentence 2

He was just a kid.

Sentence 3

Was her story true?

Sentence 4

Hey, who was that person?

Sentence 5

Hmm, was that explanation actually true?