haver

Meaning

Verb

1. (auxiliary) shall; ought to; should (forms a future tense, with a modal sense of compromise)
2. (auxiliary,formal,past) have; forms the perfect aspect
3. (archaic,auxiliary) have; forms the perfect aspect
4. (impersonal,transitive) there be; exist
5. (impersonal,transitive) there be; to happen; to occur
6. (archaic,transitive) to have; to own; to possess
7. (Brazil,transitive) to recover; to regain (to obtain something that had been lost)
8. (pronominal) to behave (to conduct oneself well, on in a given manner)
9. (impersonal,transitive) it has been ... since; ago (indicates the time since something occurred)

Noun

1. (masculine) credit
2. (in-plural,masculine) belongings
3. (in-plural,masculine) assets

Hyphenated as

ha‧ver

Pronounced as (IPA)

/aˈve(ʁ)/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

Pode haver mais chuva no futuro .

There may be more rain in the future.

Pode haver mensagens secretas neste texto .

There may be secret messages in this text.

E nos países catalães pode haver muito do primeiro e muito pouco do segundo .

And in Catalan countries there may be too much of the former and too little of the latter.

Deve haver uma linguagem que não dependa de palavras , pensou o menino .

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought.