hebben
Meaning
- (transitive) to have, to possess, own, hold
- (transitive) to be afflicted with a disease
- (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect tense of the active voice of most verbs, together with a past participle.
- (auxiliary) must, to be obliged to, to be to
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Hyphenated as
heb‧ben
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɦɛbə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch hebben, from Old Dutch hebben, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grasp”).
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