haben

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German [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old High German habēn (Akin to Old Saxon hebbian, Old Norse hafa (Swedish hava/ha), Old Frisian habba, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban), Old English habban), from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (to grasp). Cognate with Dutch hebben, English have, Danish have.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: , /ˈhaːbən/, [ˈhäːbən], [-bn̩], [-bm̩]
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Verb [edit]

haben (irregular, third-person singular simple present hat, past tense hatte, past participle gehabt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) To have; to possess; to own.
  2. (transitive) To have; to hold; to contain.
  3. (auxiliary, with a past participle) To have; forms the perfect and past perfect tense

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Conjugation [edit]


Old High German [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Germanic *habjaną, whence also Old Saxon hebbian, Old English habban, Old Norse hafa, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (to grasp), whence also Latin capiō.

Verb [edit]

habēn

  1. to have

Descendants [edit]