Have

Verb

 * Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast and second-person singular past tense hadst or haddest.


 * 1)  To possess, own, hold.
 * I have a house and a car.
 * Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
 * 1)  To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
 * I have two sisters.
 * The dog down the street has a lax owner.
 * 1)  To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
 * I have breakfast at six o'clock.
 * Can I have a look at that?
 * I'm going to have some pizza and some Pepsi right now.
 * 1)  Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
 * I have already eaten today.
 * I had already eaten.
 * 1)  must.
 * I have to go.
 * Note: there's a separate entry for have to.
 * 1)  To give birth to.
 * The couple always wanted to have children.
 * My wife is having the baby right now!
 * 1)  To engage in sexual intercourse with.
 * He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
 * 1) (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command or request.
 * They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
 * 1) (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
 * He had him arrested for trespassing.
 * The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
 * 1) (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
 * The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
 * I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
 * 1) (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
 * Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
 * 1) Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below)
 * We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
 * Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
 * He has some money, hasn't he?
 * 1)  To defeat in a fight; take.
 * I could have him!
 * 1)  To be able to speak a language.
 * I have no German
 * 1) To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
 * Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
 * 1) To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative
 * He had a cold last week.
 * We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
 * 1) To trick, to deceive
 * Yeah! You had me alright! Between your threatening stance and your armed-to-the-teeth men, I never would've thought that was just a joke.
 * 1)  Allow.
 * 2) * 1922,,  Chapter 2
 * "You're a very naughty boy. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. I won't have you chasing the geese!"

Synonyms for Have
hold, own, possess, carry, get, obtain, take, include, keep, maintain.

Antonyms for Have
want, lack, exclude, need.

Derived terms

 * -'ve
 * be had
 * have a ball


 * have a cow
 * have at you
 * have it in for


 * have it off
 * have had enough
 * have had it


 * have nots
 * have someone on
 * have to
 * haves

Thesaurus
absorb, accept, acquire, admit, affirm, allege, allow, annex, announce, annunciate, appreciate, apprehend, argue, arrange, assert, assever, asseverate, assimilate, assume, aver, avouch, avow, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be confined, be conscious of, be conversant with, be enfeoffed of, be exposed to, be informed, be possessed of, be seized of, be subjected to, be with one, bear, bear a child, bear with, bear young, beat, beget, beguile of, bilk, bind, blink at, boast, bosom, brook, bunco, burn, buy, buy off, calve, carry, cast, catch, catch on, cause, cause to, chalk up, cheat, cherish, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, claim, cling to, clip, cog, cog the dice, cognize, come by, come in for, command, compass, compel, compose, comprehend, comprise, con, conceive, conceptualize, condone, connive at, constrain, contain, contend, countenance, cozen, crib, deceive, declare, defraud, deliver, demand, derive, derive from, diddle, dig, digest, discern, distinguish, do in, do out of, drag down, draw, draw from, drink, drive, drop, eat, embody, embosom, embrace, encompass, encounter, endure, enforce, enjoy, entertain, enunciate, euchre, experience, express, farrow, father, fathom, fawn, feel, fill, finagle, fix, flam, fleece, flimflam, foal, fob, follow, fondle, fool, force, foster, fudge, gain, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, give birth, give birth to, go through, gouge, grasp, gull, gyp, harbor, have a baby, have and hold, have coming in, have in hand, have information about, have it taped, have knowledge of, have on, have tenure of, have young, hear of, hocus, hocus-pocus, hold, hold on to, hug, identify, impel, include, induce, indulge, insist, involve, issue a manifesto, keep, ken, kitten, know, know again, labor, labor under, lamb, land, lay down, learn, leave, let, lie in, litter, lubricate, maintain, make, make out, manifesto, master, meet, meet up with, meet with, mulct, must, nail, need, nurse, nurture, oblige, obtain, occupy, organize, ought to, outfox, outreach, outsmart, overlook, overreach, own, pack the deal, partake of, participate in, pass through, pay, peg, perceive, permit, pick up, pigeon, place, possess, practice fraud upon, predicate, prefer to, prehend, prepare, press, proclaim, procure, profess, pronounce, protest, pull down, pup, put, put it, put up with, read, realize, recall knowledge of, receive, recognize, reidentify, require, restrain, retain, rook, run up against, savvy, say, scam, screw, secure, see, seize, seize the meaning, sell gold bricks, sense, set down, set up, shave, shortchange, should, sire, sop, speak, speak out, speak up, spend, spot, square, squat, squat on, stack the cards, stand for, stand on, stand under, state, stick, sting, stomach, submit, subsume, suffer, sustain, swindle, take, take a dive, take in, take on, take over, tamper with, taste, tease, tell, thimblerig, throw, throw a fight, tie, tolerate, travail, treasure, treasure up, trick, undergo, understand, undo, use force upon, usucapt, victimize, whelp, wink at, wot, wot of, yean

Etymology
From haven:, from  habban:, hafian:, from, durative of , from. Cognate with Low German hebben/hewwen, hawwe:,  hebben:,  haben:,  have:,  hafa:,  capio:. More at heave.

Since there is no common Indo-European root for a transitive possessive verb have (notice that Latin "habeo" is not 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, cf. Latin mihi est / sunt, literally to me is / are.

Pronunciation

 * {{SAMPA|/h{v/}}
 * {{SAMPA|/h{f/}}
 * {{SAMPA|/h{f/}}

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Arabic: ملك, امتلك, تملك, usually no verb is used, prepositions:, , etc. + noun or pronoun are used, e.g. عندي - I have, عندك - you have (m/f), etc.
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: мець, usually expressed with expressions: "у мяне (ёсць)" (u mjanjé (josc’)) - I have, ""у цябе (ёсць)" (u cjabjé (josc’)) - you have , etc. See
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: haver,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: adessive + 3rd person singular of olla, omistaa,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: रखना, पास,
 * Hungarian: bír, birtokol, van -nak/-nek (attached to owner)
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ; (of inanimates),  (of animates)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Lao: (mii)
 * Latin:, teneo, possideo


 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian: měś
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: have
 * Occitan: aver
 * Old English:
 * Old French: ,
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a avea
 * Russian:, usually expressed with expressions: у меня (есть) (u menjá (jest’)) - I have, у тебя (есть) (u tebjá (jest’)) - you have , etc. See у (2 - preposition)
 * Scots: hae
 * Scottish Gaelic: uses +object++subject
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: имати
 * Roman: imati
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: magkaroón
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:,  usually expressed with expressions: "benim ...(I)m var" - I have, "senin ...(I)n var" - you have , etc.
 * Ukrainian:, usually expressed with expressions: "у/в мене (є)" (u/v méne (je)) - I have, "у/в тебе (є)" (u/v tébe (je)) - I have - you have , etc. See /
 * Urdu: پاس
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: labön
 * Welsh: ... - literally 'to be...with'
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish:


 * Ancient Greek:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hungarian: van -nak/-nek (attached to one who is related)
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: мати


 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Finnish: Normally a direct sentence would be used, but ottaa, saada in some cases
 * French:


 * Novial: prenda
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: esti, jam (with verb in simple tense)
 * Finnish:
 * French: avoir (for most verbs), être (for some intransitive verbs and all reflexive verbs)
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian: avere (for most verbs), essere (for some intransitive verbs and all reflexive verbs)
 * Latin: ivi,  sum,  ivi,  ivi, usus sum, gressus sum


 * Norwegian: har hat
 * Novial: ha
 * Old English:
 * Old French: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish:


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: täytyä, olla pakko
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: dovere
 * Latin: habeo quod, futurus sum,  futurus sum,  servandus sum, debeo


 * Portuguese: ter que, haver de
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: måste, vara tvungen
 * Ukrainian: мати, повинен (-m, повинна - f, повинно - n, повинні - plural)
 * Welsh:   + pronoun or noun


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: saada lapsi, synnyttää


 * German:
 * Latin: patio, pario
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: tener un hijo


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: tener sexo
 * Ukrainian: мати


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian: -at/-et/-tat/-tet
 * Latin: futurus sum


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: ,
 * Finnish: Different structure used, see: -ttaa
 * German:


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: No equivalent, a direct sentence would be used.


 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: Different structure used, see: mukaan


 * Spanish:


 * French: avoir


 * Finnish: Different structure used, see: vai ( + question)

Etymology 1
From hagi:.

Noun

 * 1) garden
 * 2) orchard
 * 3) allotment

Etymology 2
From hafa:, from, from.

Alternative forms

 * ha'

Pronunciation

 * or

Verb

 * 1) have, have got

Etymology 3
See hav:.

Alternative forms

 * (a infinitive)
 * (also Norwegian Bokmål)

Etymology
From hafa:.

Verb

 * 1) to have (possess)
 * Eg har eit hus og to bilar.
 * I have a house and two cars.
 * 1) to have (to relate to in some manner)
 * Eg har to systrer.
 * I have two sisters.