Polyglot Dictionary

haben

/ˈhaːbn̩/

verb A1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

V Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

ich
habe
du
hast
er/sie/es
hat
wir/sie/Sie
haben
past (er)
hatte
perfect
hat gehabt

Meaning

  1. to have

    Also the perfect-tense helper for most German verbs — "ich habe gemacht" (I have made) — the way sein is for verbs of motion and change of state.

V Category State Concreteness Concrete Agency Voluntary Duration Durative Transitivity Transitive

Practice

1 What does haben mean?

2 Fill the gap: ___ du Zeit?

3 Which fingerprint chart matches haben?

See also

verbirregularcore-vocabularygrammar

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