weren't
SayWURNT/ˈwɝn̩t/UK · AUS/ˈwɜːnt/
- 1Contraction of were not.
The roads weren't cleared until two days after the storm.
Weren't you supposed to call the landlord this morning?
Note
The negative does every job its positive form does. With you, we and they it is the ordinary past (they weren't home). In conditionals it is the subjunctive, which is how if I weren't and if she weren't come about. In Ireland, Northern England and Multicultural London English, were also serves I, he and she in plain statements, so she weren't there is regional speech rather than an error.
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Origin
Formed from 'were' combined with the contraction '-n't', meaning 'not'.