Istigkeit

Ist = to be -- 3rd person singular present tense
ig = adverb making suffix
keit = ness

war = to be -- 3rd person singular past tense

wird = to become -- 3rd person singular present tense - periphrastic future marker, takes infinitive

sein = to be -- infinitive

isness and wasness

what is was-ness and, also, what is will be-ness?
Warigkeit? Wirdseinigkeit?


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