hebben

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to have, to possess, own, hold
  2. (transitive) to be afflicted with a disease
  3. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect tense of the active voice of most verbs, together with a past participle.
  4. (auxiliary) must, to be obliged to, to be to

Frequency

A1
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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