have

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To possess, own.
2. (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
3. (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
4. (transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
5. (transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
6. (transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
7. (transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
8. (transitive) To experience, go through, undergo.
9. (transitive) To be afflicted with, suffer from.
10. (auxiliary, with-past-participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
11. Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
12. (auxiliary, with-infinitive, with-to) See have to.
13. (transitive) To give birth to.
14. (informal, passive, usually) To obtain.
15. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
16. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
17. (transitive, with-infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
18. (transitive, with-adjective) To cause to be.
19. (transitive, with-infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is a small clause.)
20. (transitive, with-adjective) To depict as being.
21. (British, slang, transitive) To defeat in a fight; take.
22. (British, slang, transitive) To inflict punishment or retribution on.
23. (transitive) To be able to speak (a language).
24. (transitive) To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
25. (informal, often, passive, transitive) To trick, to deceive.
26. (transitive) To allow; to tolerate.
27. (often, transitive) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
28. (transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.
29. (transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
30. (transitive) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
31. (transitive) To make an observation of (a bird species).
32. (transitive) To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest.
33. (transitive) To grasp the meaning of; comprehend.

Noun

1. (contrastive, idiomatic, usually) A wealthy or privileged person.
2. (idiomatic, uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.

Noun

A fraud or deception; something misleading.

Opposite of

have-not

Synonyms

possess

own

get

hold

receive

take

have got

be

obtain

make

keep

bear

🐻

exist

experience

must

accept

🉑

eat

🍽️

contain

ingest

should

give

has

deliver

with

ought

take in

acquire

suffer

carry

generate

reach

give birth

do

birth

consume

maintain

is

there is

sustain

let

wear

gain

assume

put

place

enjoy

occupy

belong

grab

lie

Translations

avoir

tener

haben

avere

ter

hebben

έχω

possedere

posséder

tenir

prendre

besitzen

devoir

tenir

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hæv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: haven

Inherited from Old English: habban

Cognate with Latin: habeō

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: hääbe

Cognate with Western Frisian: hawwe

Cognate with Dutch: hebben

Cognate with Afrikaans: hê

Cognate with Low German: hebben

Cognate with German: haben

Cognate with Danish: have

Cognate with Swedish: hava

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: ha

Cognate with Icelandic: hafa

Cognate with Albanian: kap

Cognate with Latin: capiō

Cognate with Russian: хапать

In summary

From Middle English haven, from Old English habban (“to have”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have”), durative of *habjaną (“to lift, take up”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, present tense of *keh₂p- (“to take, seize, catch”). Related to heave.
Since there is no common Indo-European root for a transitive possessive verb have (notice that Latin habeō is not etymologically related to English have), Proto-Indo-European probably lacked the have structure. Instead, the third person forms of be were used, with the possessor in dative case, compare Latin mihi est / sunt, literally to me is / are.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots hae (“to have”), North Frisian haa, heewe (“to have”), Saterland Frisian häbe, hääbe (“to have”), West Frisian hawwe (“to have”), Afrikaans hê (“to have”), Alemannic German haa, heen, hoh, hä, häbä, hè (“to have”), Bavarian hobm, hobn, hoom, håbn (“to have”), Cimbrian haban, hen, håm (“to have”), Dutch, Low German hebben (“to have”), German haben (“to have”), Limburgish haane, höbbe (“to have”), Luxembourgish hunn (“to have”), Mòcheno hom (“to have”), Vilamovian hon (“to have”), Yiddish האָבן (hobn, “to have”), Danish have (“to have”), Elfdalian åvå (“to have”), Faroese hava (“to have”), Icelandic hafa (“to have”), Norwegian Bokmål ha (“to have”), Norwegian Nynorsk ha, hava, have, hå (“to have”), Swedish ha, hafva, hava (“to have”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban, “to have”), Albanian kap (“to grab, catch, grip”), Latin capiō (“take”, verb), Russian хапать (xapatʹ, “to seize”).

Sentences

The girls have been here nearly half an hour waiting .

" You have helped me ." The man continued to prepare his tea , saying nothing .

He is thought to have lived in this manner for roughly three years .

I have been waiting for you here at this oasis for a long time .

Several books and articles have been written from this perspective .

I have no idea what complexity science is .