fuerat

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

Found 959 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.13.2: Helvetii repentino eius adventu commoti cum id quod ipsi diebus XX aegerrime confecerant, ut flumen transirent, illum uno die fecisse intellegerent, legatos ad eum mittunt; cuius legationis Divico princeps fuit, qui bello Cassiano dux Helvetiorum fuerat.

Cicero, De Republica 2.59: †Fuerat fortasse aliqua ratio maioribus nostris in illo aere alieno medendi, quae neque Solonem Atheniensem non longi …

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.