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wasnae

wasnae is the contraction of was.

Meaning of was

Verb

was

  1. (colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
    • There was three of them there.

See all 2 meanings of was

Origin of wasnae

was + -nae

Questions about wasnae

What is wasnae the contraction of?
Wasnae is the contraction of was.

Words near wasnae in the dictionary

  1. wasms
  2. Wasmund
  3. Wasmunds
  4. wasn't
  5. wasna
  6. wasnae
  7. Wasney
  8. wasnt
  9. WASO
  10. Wason
  11. Wasons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wasnae (page history and authors); was (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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