gah

[ gah ]

/ gɑ /

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(used as an expression of disappointment, frustration, dismay, or the like): Gah! I need to cancel our plans this weekend—too much work.

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

First recorded in 1915–20

The dedication of State Department diplomats such as Marlin Hardinger—on his fourth year in Lashkar Gah—is breathtaking.
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She put out her hand to take them from the Little People,—and not a fish, nor a Jo gah oh was to be seen.
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From the day when the boy met the little Jo gah oh mother in the wood, and was given the stone, he had good luck.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children|Mabel Powers
She was so happy with them she wished she might always live in a Jo gah oh lodge.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children|Mabel Powers

Just as the little Jo gah oh mother had said, he became a chief, though not in the chieftain line.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children|Mabel Powers
Tenses are formed by adding gee to the pronoun for the perfect, and gah for the future, and gahgee for the second future.
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