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Definition of "have" in Englisch

Verb

  1. To possess, own.

    • I have a house and a car.
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
    • A government has three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial.
    • The movie has lots of action.
  4. 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.
    • I have a really mean boss.
  5. 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!
    • She's had more than enough time already.
  6. To undertake or perform (an action or activity).

    • Can I have a look at that?
    • He's having a tantrum about it.
    • I’m going to have a bath now.
    • Let’s have a game of tiddlywinks.
  7. 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.
    • I have a lot of work to do.
  8. 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.
    • I’m having the time of my life!
    • I hope you have a wonderful birthday.
    • This year we're having Christmas with my wife's family in Thunder Bay.
  9. To be afflicted with, suffer from.

    • He had a cold last week.
  10. Used in forming the perfect aspect.

    • I have already eaten today.
    • Mom's gone real mad, she has.
    • The universe is expanding and has been since its beginning.
    • I will have left by the time you get here.
    • This is the first (and last) time I've eaten lobster.
    • I’ve worked here for exactly four years, one month and 10 days.
  • The dogs have eaten your dinner, and I ate the last of the frozen burgers this morning.
  • Uncle José has crashed the car again. He ran into a tree.
  • The American Revolution has influenced every democratic process in Europe since the 19th c.
  • 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?
    • He has some money, hasn’t he?
  • See have to.

    • I have to go.
  • To give birth to.

    • The couple always wanted to have children.
    • My wife is having the baby right now!
    • My mother had me when she was 25.
  • To obtain.

    • The substance you describe can't be had at any price.
  • To engage in sexual intercourse with.

    • He’s always bragging about how many women he’s had.
  • To accept as a romantic partner.

    • Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
  • To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

    • They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
    • Her very boyfriend is the person the criminal has do most of her dirty deeds.
    • The floor has had oil dropped all over it.
  • To cause to be.

    • He had him arrested for trespassing.
    • I'd better have my watch repaired today: tomorrow I have to have my hair cut before having pictures taken for my passport.
    • The lecture’s ending had the entire audience in tears.
    • Jim has his eyes closed.
  • To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is a small clause.)

    • The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
    • I’ve had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
  • To depict as being.

    • Their stories differed; he said he’d been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
  • To defeat in a fight; take.

    • I could have him!
  • To inflict punishment or retribution on.

    • You broke the window! Teacher’ll have you for that!
  • To be able to speak (a language).

    • I have no German.
  • To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

    • Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
  • To trick, to deceive.

    • I bought a laptop online but it never arrived. I think I've been had!
    • You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
  • To allow; to tolerate.

    • The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
    • I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
  • To believe, buy, be taken in by.

    • I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
  • To host someone; to take in as a guest.

    • Thank you for having me!
  • To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.

    • What do you have for problem two?
    • I have two contacts on my scope.
  • To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.

    • We’ll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
  • To make an observation of (a bird species).

  • To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest.

  • To grasp the meaning of; comprehend.

    • Ah! Now I have it!
  • Noun

    1. A wealthy or privileged person.

    2. One who has some (contextually specified) thing.

    Noun

    1. A fraud or deception; something misleading.

      • They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.