Meaning

34 senses
  1. (transitive)To possess, own.

    I have a house and a car.

    haben, besitzen

    име́тьimétʹ, у меня́, у тебя́

    ма́тиmáty, у /в мене, у /в тебе

  2. (transitive)To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

    Look what I have here—a frog I found on the street!

    Do you have the key?

    haben

  3. (transitive)To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.

    The stove has a handle. The shirt has sleeves.

    The words cow and dog have three letters.

    have as a feature

  4. (transitive)Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

    I have two sisters.

    She doesn’t have any friends.

    haben

  5. (transitive)To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).

    I have breakfast at six o'clock.

    You've already had five drinks!

  6. (transitive)To undertake or perform (an action or activity).

    Can I have a look at that?

    He's having a tantrum about it.

  7. (transitive)To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

    What class do you have right now? I have English.

    Fred won’t be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.

    haben

  8. (transitive)To experience, go through, undergo.

    We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.

    He had surgery on his hip yesterday.

    haben

    undergo

  9. (transitive)To be afflicted with, suffer from.

    He had a cold last week.

    haben

    suffer from; be ill with

  10. (auxiliary, with past participle)Used in forming the perfect aspect.

    I have already eaten today.

    Mom's gone real mad, she has.

  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.)

    They haven’t eaten dinner yet, have they?

    Your wife hasn’t been reading that nonsense, has she?

    haben, sein

  12. (auxiliary, with infinitive, with to)See have to.

    I have to go.

    have ownership or possession of

Examples

207768 sentences
  1. I'm sorry, I don't have change.

    Перепрошую, у мене немає здачі.

    ruИзвините, у меня нет мелочи.

    deTut mir leid, ich habe kein Kleingeld.

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  2. You have to come with me.

    Ти маєш піти зі мною.

    ruТы должен пойти со мной.

    deSie müssen mit mir kommen.

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  3. You should have attended the meeting.

    Ти мусив би відвідати зустріч.

    deDu hättest zur Versammlung gehen sollen.

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  4. How many books do you have?

    Скільки у тебе книг?

    ruСколько у тебя книг?

    deWie viele Bücher besitzt du?

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  5. What are you going to have?

    Що їстимеш?

    deWas wirst du haben?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
1. to possess:
15. engage in sexual intercourse with:
Русский
By meaning 1
1. to possess:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
1. to possess:
10. auxiliary used in forming the perfect and the past perfect tenses:
13. give birth to — see also give birth:
18. cause to be:

Origin

From Middle English haven, from Old English habban (“to have”), from Proto-West Germanic *

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 *kapyéti, an imperfective formation to the root *kap- (“to take, seize, catch”). Related to heave.

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Forms

has, having, had, had
Base formhave · to have
3rd person singularhas
Present participlehaving
Past simplehad
Past participlehad

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhave
he, she, ithas

Past simpleLesson

all personshad

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave had
he, she, ithas had

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill have

Phrasal verbs

9 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

15 synonyms
engage in sexual intercourse with:have one's way with
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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