wasn't
WUZ-uhnt/ˈwʌz.ənt/UKWOZ-uhnt/ˈwɒz.ənt/
- 1Contraction of was not.
He wasn't ready to leave when the taxi pulled up.
The meeting wasn't nearly as long as everyone had feared.
Note
The negative of past-tense was, built from was plus -n't, it follows was in agreement: standard use pairs it with I, he, she and it, while you, we and they take weren't. Colloquial speech stretches it further, as in we wasn't and you wasn't, which reads as nonstandard. After existential there it often comes before a plural (there wasn't many left), a looser pattern best kept out of formal writing.
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Origin
A contraction of "was not," formed from "was" plus "-n't."