gave

See also: gavé and gåve

English

Etymology

From Middle English gaf, yaf, ȝaf, from Old English ġæf, ġeaf.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: gāv, IPA^(key): /ɡeɪv/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ɡeːv]
  • (Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): [ɡeːv], [ɡɛːv]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

Verb

gave

1. simple past of give
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     I gaue thee Life, and rescu'd thee from Death.

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

     The superior degree of confidence towards Harriet, which this one article marked, gave her severe pain.

   • 2011 July 31, Bob Woffinden, The Guardian:

     With the Oxford canal at the bottom of his garden, regular canoeing excursions gave him enormous pleasure.

2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of give
   • c. 1916, Ring W. Lardner, The Courtship of T. Dorgan; republished in George W. Hilton, The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919‎^[1], Stanford University Press, 1995, →ISBN, page 297:

     Well I suppose you will wonder what has happened to change my mind and if somebody has gave me a birthday present of $600.00 or something.

   • 1951, “Influence in Government Procurement”, in Hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee of Expenditures in the Executive Departments […] ‎^[2], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 678:

     Mr. Green. No; not to my recollection, Senator. I may have gave Frank Prince some for his wife, or something like that.

   • 2012 August 10, James Kelman, A Chancer‎^[3], Birlinn, →ISBN, page 6:

     I'm talking about redundancies, he said, that's what I'm talking about. And yous better get bloody used to the idea. One of the men shrugged: Ach well, we knew it was coming. That's as maybe but they should've gave us notice. Formal.

See also

• given

Anagrams

• EVGA, Vega, vega

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German gābe, from Old Saxon *gāva, from Proto-West Germanic *gābā (“gift, giving”).

Cognate with German Gabe. Late Old Norse gáfa and Swedish gåva are probably also from Low German. It has replaced a similar word with a different shape: Danish gæv (“feed”), from Old Norse gjǫf (“gift”), from Proto-Germanic *gebō, cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰 (giba). Both words are ultimately derived from the verb *gebaną (“to give”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊æːʋə], [ˈɡ̊æːʊ]
• Rhymes: -aːvə

Noun

gave c (singular definite gaven, plural indefinite gaver)

1. gift, present
2. gift (a talent or natural ability)

Declension

Declension of gave

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gave	gaven	gaver	gaverne
genitive	gaves	gavens	gavers	gavernes

Derived terms

• julegave

References

• “gave” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣaːvə/

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• Hyphenation: ga‧ve
• Rhymes: -aːvə

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gave, from Old Dutch gāva, from Proto-West Germanic *gābā, from Proto-Germanic *gēbǭ, ablaut variant of *gebō.

Noun

gave f (plural gaven or gaves, diminutive gavetje n or gaafje n)

1. A gift, donation, present
2. A gift, talent

Synonyms

• (donation): geschenk, gift
• (talent): talent

Related terms

• geven, gift, gif
• morgengave
• doorgave, opgave, overgave, toegave, uitgave, weergave

Descendants

• Negerhollands: gaaf, gaeven

Verb

gave

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of geven

Etymology 2

Adjective

gave

1. inflection of gaaf:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

French

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

See main entry

Verb

gave

1. inflection of gaver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Probably same as Etymology 1, in the sense "to gorge, fill up".

Noun

gave m (plural gaves)

1. mountain torrent, watercourse, gorge.

References

• “gave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gave f or m (definite singular gava or gaven, indefinite plural gaver, definite plural gavene)

1. a present or gift (something given to someone, e.g. for Christmas or a birthday)
2. a gift (a talent or natural ability)

Synonyms

• presang (sense 1 above)

Derived terms

• bryllupsgave
• gavekort
• julegave

See also

• gåve (Nynorsk)

References

• “gave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀕𑀯𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• गवे (Devanagari script)
• গৰে (Bengali script)
• ගවෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဂဝေ or ၷဝေ (Burmese script)
• คเว or คะเว (Thai script)
• ᨣᩅᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ຄເວ or ຄະເວ (Lao script)
• គវេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄉𑅇𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

gave

1. locative singular of go (“cow, ox, bull”)