haver
Significado (English)
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- (auxiliary) shall; ought to; should (forms a future tense, with a modal sense of compromise)
- (auxiliary, formal, past) have; forms the perfect aspect
- (archaic, auxiliary) have; forms the perfect aspect
- (impersonal, transitive) there be; exist
- (impersonal, transitive) there be; to happen; to occur
- (archaic, transitive) to have; to own; to possess
- (Brazil, transitive) to recover; to regain (to obtain something that had been lost)
- (pronominal) to behave (to conduct oneself well, on in a given manner)
- (impersonal, transitive) it has been ... since; ago (indicates the time since something occurred)
Frecuencia
Con guión como
ha‧ver
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/aˈve(ʁ)/
Etimoloxía (English)
In summary
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aver, from Latin habēre (“to have, to hold, to possess”). Compare Galician haber. Cognate of Spanish haber, French avoir, and Italian avere.
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