erant

erant is a Latin form of sum, meaning “be, exist; (as auxiliary) is, are, was”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 2,633 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.5.3: frumentum omne, praeter quod secum portaturi erant, comburunt, ut domum reditionis spe sublata paratiores ad omnia pericula subeunda essent; trium mensum molita …

Plautus, Asinaria 1.2.143: atque ea si érant, magnás habebas omnibus dis gratias;

All forms of sum (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.