war Learn Unstarted Summary The German translation for “was” is war. Examples of "was" in use There are 18 examples of the German word for "was" being used: Recording English German Learn it was sad es war traurig Learn She felt embarrassed. Sie war verlegen. Learn The retaliation was severe. Die Vergeltung war heftig. Learn Yanni was kind. Yanni war nett. Learn I was skiing. Ich war Skifahren. Learn It was pitch-black. Es war stockfinster. Learn I was suspicious. Ich war misstrauisch. Learn was radiant war strahlend Learn Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Practice Lesson "was" Practice (10) Lesson Learn Lesson words was etc. View all lesson words Lesson phrases I was, it was, she was, That was a lie., The retaliation was severe., was radiant, was setting, was silent, was sponging etc. View all lesson phrases Themed Courses Miscellaneous 3 Part of Speech Courses Verbs 1 Acknowledgements Audio Google text-to-speech