wert

(stressed)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɜːt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɝt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

(unstressed)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wət/

wert

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of be

   Synonym: wast

   Why wert thou there?

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

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

2. (archaic) second-person singular simple past subjunctive of be

   Synonym: were

   If thou wert mine, I would be in heaven!

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 8:6:

     If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, ...

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 3:15:

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

• “wert”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “wert”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• Trew, trew

• werth (obsolete)

From Middle High German wert, from Old High German werd, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz. See the English cognate worth for more.

• IPA^(key): /veːɐ̯t/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /vɛɐ̯t/ (equally common)

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wert (strong nominative masculine singular werter, comparative werter, superlative am wertesten)

1. worth, worthy of [with accusative or (higher register) genitive ‘something’]

   Gold(es) wert sein ― to be worth gold/worth its weight in gold

   Das ist die Mühe nicht wert. ― That's not worth the effort.

   Sie fand es nicht der Mühe wert. ― She didn't find it worth the effort.

   Der Wein ist seinen Preis wert. ― The wine is worth its price.

   Er ist die ganze Aufmerksamkeit nicht wert, die er bekommt. ― He's not worthy of all the attention he gets.

2. (higher register) worthy of [with genitive ‘someone’]

   Das ist meiner nicht wert. ― That’s below my dignity.

3. (formal) dear

   Werte Gäste, ... ― Dear guests, ...

• In older usage, wert was generally construed with a genitive object. This is now restricted to elevated style or fixed expressions, for example: Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist des Talers nicht wert. — “Who doesn't honour the penny, isn't worthy of the dollar.” (An equivalent expression is “A penny saved is a penny earned”.)
• The genitive case is preferred when the object of wert is a person (or a group, organization, etc.). However, this usage is quite rare and würdig is more common instead.

• wertfrei
• wertlos

• Wert

• “wert” in Duden online
• “wert” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old Dutch *wert, *wirt, from Proto-Germanic *werduz.

wert m

1. host
2. innkeeper

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• wāert
• wēert

• Dutch: waard

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wert

1. inflection of werden:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   3. singular/plural imperative

• “wert (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “wert (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

wert

1. Alternative form of wort (“plant”)

wert

1. Alternative form of vert

wert

1. Alternative form of vert

wert

1. Alternative form of warte

wert ?

1. descendence

wert f

1. Alternative form of wyrt

Borrowed from German Wert.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛrt/
• Rhymes: -ɛrt
• Syllabification: wert

wert m inan

1. value

• wert in silling.org

From French verte.

• IPA^(key): /wɛrt/

wert

1. to be green