das waren

those were

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phrase Common #4,325
those were Used to refer to plural people or things in the past.
GE: Das waren gute Zeiten.
EN: Those were good times.

Das waren ihre Worte!

Those were her words!

— Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Das waren Fern und Lily.

That was Fern and Lily.

— The Dead Don't Die (2019)

Das waren meine Freunde!

Those were my friends!

— Battle Royale (2000)

Das waren nur die Jungen.

Those were just the boys.

— Prinzessin Mononoke (1997)

Das waren Spanier.

They were Spaniards.

Das waren unsere glücklichsten Tage.

Those were our happiest days.

— Happy Together (1997)

Das waren alles Dinge, die dem toten Mann gehört hatten.

These were all things that had belonged to the dead man.

— Rashomon - Das Lustwäldchen (1950)

Das waren zwei meiner besten Kunden.

Those were two of my best customers.

— The Dead Don't Die (2019)

Das waren bestimmt die Krähen.

That must have been the crows.

— Kikis kleiner Lieferservice (1989)

Und jetzt glauben alle da draußen, dass wir das waren.

And now everyone out there believes that we did it.

— Who Am I – Kein System ist sicher (2014)

Das waren die Flammen, Dummkopf.

Those were the flames, you idiot.

— Agora - Die Säulen des Himmels (2009)

Prinzessin, das waren doch nur Metaphern.

Princess, those were just metaphors.

— Die Legende der Prinzessin Kaguya (2013)

Das waren doch Sie.

That was you, wasn't it?

— Die Unfassbaren 3 - Now you see me (2025)

Aber das waren die Lügen, die sie hören wollten.

But those were the lies they wanted to hear.

— Wicked: Teil 2 (2025)

Das waren eure letzten Worte.

Those were your last words.

— Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Das waren gute Zeiten!

Those were good times!

Das waren Abraham und Sara.

Those were Abraham and Sarah.

— Wilde Erdbeeren (1957)

Na gut, ich nahm zu, aber das waren alles Muskeln.

Well, I did gain weight, but it was all muscle.

Genau das waren Ihre Worte.

Those were exactly your words.

— Oppenheimer (2023)

Das waren ja offensichtlich falsche Anschuldigungen.

Those were obviously false accusations.

— The Teachers' Lounge (2023)

Das waren Leute aus Pas-de-Calais.

They were people from Pas-de-Calais.

— Die fabelhafte Welt der Amélie (2001)

Das waren nach drei Jahren die ersten Worte.

Those were the first words after three years.

— The Man from Nowhere (2010)

Sag es den Schweinen nicht, aber das waren die besten Jahre meines Lebens.

Don't tell the pigs, but those were the best years of my life.

— The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Das waren sie immer zu dir.

They were always like that to you.

— Y Tu Mama Tambien - Lust for Life (2001)

Das waren Zeiten!

Those were the days!

— Alles über meine Mutter (1999)

Das waren auf jeden Fall mehr als fünf Minuten.

That was definitely more than five minutes.

— Anora (2024)

Das waren die Bullen.

That was the cops.

— Diva (1981)

Das waren die jungen Ladys, die ihm damals zur Auswahl standen.

Those were the young ladies he had to choose from at the time.

— Alles eine Frage der Zeit (2013)

Das waren doch vorläufig wohl unnötige Sorgen.

Those worries were probably unnecessary after all.

Das waren genug Zwerge für einen Tag.

That was enough dwarves for one day.

— Der Hobbit - Eine unerwartete Reise (2012)

Das waren ihre Namen.

Those were their names.

— Mystic River (2003)

Das waren Banditen, aber keine Soldaten.

They were bandits, not soldiers.

— Der Leopard (1963)

Das waren meine Erwartungen.

Those were my expectations.

Das waren Profis, verdammt.

Those guys were pros, damn it.

— Inception (2010)

Das waren nur Vermutungen von mir.

Those were just assumptions on my part.

— Volver - Zurückkehren (2006)

Nein, Mr Overstreet, das waren nicht nur Typen.

No, Mr. Overstreet, these weren't just guys.

— Der Club der toten Dichter (1989)

Das waren so glückliche Zeiten!

Those were such happy times!

Das waren alle Informationen.

That was all the information.

— The Man from Nowhere (2010)

Das waren zehntausend Bücher, von jedem vier Exemplare.

That was ten thousand books, four copies of each.

Das waren bestimmt Ramadhirs Männer.

Those were definitely Ramadhir's men.

— Gangs of Wasseypur - Teil 1 (2012)

Das waren die Bücher.

Those were the books.

— Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes - Teil 1 (2010)

Das waren die.

Those were the ones.

— Mulholland Drive - Straße der Finsternis (2001)

Das waren erheblich mehr Leute, als ich in meiner Mannschaft hatte.

That was considerably more people than I had on my team.

Ich weiß, daß Sie das waren.

I know that was you.

Das waren gute Schnitte.

Those were good cuts.

— The Dead Don't Die (2019)

Das waren ihre glücklichsten Jahre.

Those were her happiest years.

Woher wußten Sie, daß Tom und Maria das waren?

How did you know it was Tom and Maria?

Das waren Garibaldis Worte.

Those were Garibaldi's words.

— Der Leopard (1963)

Das waren meine Gedanken.

Those were my thoughts.

— Rashomon - Das Lustwäldchen (1950)

Das war ich nicht, das waren die!

That wasn't me, that was them!

— Das Waisenhaus (2007)

Das waren seine letzten Worte.

Those were his last words.

Das waren Verbrechen aus Leidenschaft.

Those were crimes of passion.

— Psycho (1960)

Das waren auch nur Halluzinationen.

Those were just hallucinations too.

— Salyut-7 (2017)

Genau, das waren Kunden.

Exactly, those were customers.

— Broker - Familie gesucht (2022)

Das waren der Kater und der Fuchs.

That was the tomcat and the fox.

— Pinocchio (2019)

Das waren die Worte meiner Frau!

Those were my wife's words!

— Rashomon - Das Lustwäldchen (1950)

Das waren doch die Römer!

But it was the Romans!

— Auf Wiedersehen, Kinder (1987)

Aber das waren einige Deutsche auch.

But some Germans were too.

— Der englische Patient (1996)

Das waren genau die Worte.

Those were exactly the words.

— The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Das waren ihre Lieblingsblumen.

These were her favorite flowers.

Das waren Affen.

Those were monkeys.

— Nowhere in Africa (2001)

Das waren keine normalen Projektionen.

Those weren't ordinary projections.

— Inception (2010)

Das waren Nigger, stimmt's?

Those were niggers, right?

— Falling Down - Ein ganz normaler Tag (1993)

Das waren nicht Sie?

That wasn't you?

— Von ganzem Herzen (1998)

Das waren sie nicht.

They weren't.

— Öffne die Augen (1997)

Das waren aber viele Stufen.

Those were a lot of stairs.

— Traum meines Lebens (1955)

Das waren wohl viele.

There must have been a lot of them.

— Wie der Wind sich hebt (2013)

Das waren auf keinen Fall Dealer.

Those were definitely not drug dealers.

— Elite Squad: Im Sumpf der Korruption (2010)

Das waren die Buzzcocks.

That was the Buzzcocks.

— Control (2007)

Das waren die schönsten Jahre meines Lebens auf der Virginian.

Those were the best years of my life on the Virginian.

— Die Legende vom Ozeanpianisten (1998)

Das waren echte Männer.

Those were real men.

— Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Das waren gewöhnliche Leute.

They were ordinary people.

— Er ist wieder da (2015)