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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!
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āWasā is used for the indicative past tense of āto be,ā and āwereā is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
Origin of bake
First recorded before 1000; Middle English baken, Old English bacan; cognate with Old High German bahhan, Old Norse baka; akin to Dutch bakken, German backen, Greek phį¹gein āto roastā; from Proto-Indo-European extended root bhÄg-, bhÅg- āto warm, roastā
OTHER WORDS FROM bake
Words nearby bake
Bajan, Bajer, Ba Jin, B.A.Jour., BAK, bake, bakeapple, baked Alaska, baked beans, baked meat, bakegoods
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How to use bake in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for bake
bake
/ (beÉŖk) /
verb
noun
Word Origin for bake
Old English bacan; related to Old Norse baka, Old High German bahhan to bake, Greek phÅgein to parch, roast
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