habeo

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Contents 1 Latin 1.1 Verb 1.1.1 Usage notes 1.1.2 Inflection 1.1.3 Derived terms 1.1.4 Related terms 1.1.5 Descendants

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[edit] Verb

present active habeō, present infinitive habēre, perfect active habuī, supine habitum.

1. I have, hold.

   Spero ut pacem habeant semper.

   I hope that they may always have peace.

   • Catiline Orations by Cicero (Latin text and English translations may be found here, a parsed version is here)

     O di immortales, ubinam gentium sumus? Quam rem publicam habemus? In qua urbe vivimus?.

     O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? What is the government we have? In what city are we living?

2. I own.
3. I possess.

   Habet annos viginti.

   He is twenty years old.

4. I retain, maintain.
5. I conduct, preside over.
6. I regard, consider or account a person or thing as something.
7. I accept, bear, endure.

[edit] Usage notes

• Another way of denoting ownership besides using the verb habeō is using a personal pronoun (egō (“‘I’”), tu (“‘you’”), nōs (“‘we’”), etc.) in the dative case (mihi (“‘to me’”), tibi (“‘to you’”), nōbīs (“‘to us’”) respectively) with the copula esse (“‘to be’”), literally asking whether the item in question "is to you". For example:

  Habēsne epistolas? - Have you got the letters?

  Estne tibi epistolae? - Do you have the letters?

• And to answer one could say:

  Sic est, habeo epistolas. - Yes, I have the letters.

  Etiam, est mihi epistolae. - Yes, I have the letters.

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[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Related terms

• habēnula
• habilitās
• habiliter

[edit] Descendants