Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: was
- Amharic: ነበር
- Arabic: كان
- Azerbaijani: idi
- Bashkir: буласаҡ
- Belarusian: быў
- Bulgarian: е
- Bengali: ছিল
- Bosnian: bio
- Catalan: va
- Cebuano: mao
- Czech: byl
- Welsh: yn
- Danish: var
- German: war
- Greek: ήταν
- Esperanto: estis
- Spanish: fue
- Estonian: oli
- Basque: izan zen
- Persian: شد
- Finnish: oli
- French: a été
- Irish: bhí
- Scottish Gaelic: e
- Galician: foi
- Gujarati: હતી
- Hebrew: היה
- Hindi: था
- Croatian: bio
- Haitian: te
- Hungarian: volt
- Armenian: է եղել
- Indonesian: itu
- Icelandic: var
- Italian: era
- Japanese: た
- Javanese: iki
- Georgian: იყო
- Kazakh: болды
- Khmer: ត្រូវបាន
- Kannada: ಆಗಿತ್ತು
- Korean: 였
- Kyrgyz: болчу
- Latin: erat
- Luxembourgish: war
- Lao: ນີ້ແມ່
- Lithuanian: buvo
- Latvian: bija
- Malagasy: dia
- Mari: лийын
- Maori: ko
- Macedonian: беше
- Malayalam: ആയിരുന്നു.
- Mongolian: байсан
- Marathi: होते
- Hill Mari: улы
- Malay: adalah
- Maltese: kien
- Burmese: ခဲ့
- Nepali: थियो
- Dutch: was
- Norwegian: var
- Punjabi: ਸੀ
- Papiamento: a
- Polish: był
- Portuguese: foi
- Romanian: a fost
- Russian: был
- Sinhalese: විය
- Slovak: bola
- Slovenian: bil
- Albanian: ishte
- Serbian: био
- Sundanese: ieu
- Swedish: var
- Swahili: ilikuwa
- Tamil: இருந்தது
- Telugu: ఉంది.
- Tajik: буд
- Thai: น
- Tagalog: ay
- Turkish: oldu
- Tatar: булды
- Udmurt: луоз
- Ukrainian: був
- Urdu: تھا
- Uzbek: bo'ldi
- Vietnamese: được
- Xhosa: waba
- Yiddish: איז געווען
- Chinese: 是