had
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had
- Simple past tense and past participle of have.
- 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:
- About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton [...].
- 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:
- (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (+ past participle).
- 2011, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, 15 Apr 2011:
- Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?
- 2011, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, 15 Apr 2011:
- (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: ‘would have’.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.4:
- Julius Cæsar had escaped death, if going to the Senate-house, that day wherein he was murthered by the Conspirators, he had read a memorial which was presented unto him.
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 24:
- If all was good and fair we met, / This earth had been the Paradise / It never look’d to human eyes / Since our first Sun arose and set.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.4:
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Had is one of a very few words to be correctly used twice in succession in English, e.g. He had had several operations previously.
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had
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From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.
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had m.
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- hadice f.
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From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂d- (“hate”).
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had n. (singular definite hadet, not used in plural form)
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had
- imperative of hade
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had
- singular past indicative of hebben.
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From the same Finno-Ugric root *kunta as Finnish kunta.
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- IPA: /ˈhɒd/
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had (plural hadak)
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Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“state, condition, rank, person”). Akin to Old Norse heiðr "dignity, honor", Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “manner”).
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hād m.
- person, individual; character
- individuality
- rank, order; degree
- honor, dignity
- office (esp religious)
- state, condition; nature, manner
- sex, gender
- race; kindred, family; tribe, group
- choir
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Declension of had (strong u-stem)
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From Arabic حَدّ.
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had
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had m.
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