had
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English hadde (preterite), yhad (past participle), from Old English hæfde (first and third person singular preterite), ġehæfd (past participle), from Proto-Germanic *habd-, past and past participle stem of *habjaną (“to have”), equivalent to have + -ed. Cognate with Dutch had, German hatte, Swedish hade, Icelandic hafði.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /hæd/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -æd
VerbEdit
had
- simple past tense and past participle of have.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, OCLC 39810224, page 1:
- 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, […].
- (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle).
- 2011 April 15, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, London:
- Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?
- 2011 April 15, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, London:
- (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
- To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute […].
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- 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.
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
AdjectiveEdit
had
- (obsolete) Available.
- 1485, William Caxton, The Preface to Le Morte d'Arthur:
- Which be not had in our maternal tongue.
- 1485, William Caxton, The Preface to Le Morte d'Arthur:
Usage notesEdit
Had, like that, 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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AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
BretonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Celtic *satos, from *sh₁-tó-, past participle of Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.
NounEdit
had m (plural hadoù)
Central Cagayan AgtaEdit
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
had m
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- hadice f
Further readingEdit
- had in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- had in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂d- (“hate”), *ḱād-.
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ad
NounEdit
had n (singular definite hadet, not used in plural form)
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VerbEdit
had
- imperative of hade
DutchEdit
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Hungarian hadu, from Proto-Ugric *kontə, from Proto-Finno-Ugric [Term?] *kunta.[1] Cognate with Finnish kunta.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
had (plural hadak)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | had | hadak |
| accusative | hadat | hadakat |
| dative | hadnak | hadaknak |
| instrumental | haddal | hadakkal |
| causal-final | hadért | hadakért |
| translative | haddá | hadakká |
| terminative | hadig | hadakig |
| essive-formal | hadként | hadakként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | hadban | hadakban |
| superessive | hadon | hadakon |
| adessive | hadnál | hadaknál |
| illative | hadba | hadakba |
| sublative | hadra | hadakra |
| allative | hadhoz | hadakhoz |
| elative | hadból | hadakból |
| delative | hadról | hadakról |
| ablative | hadtól | hadaktól |
| Possessive forms of had | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | hadam | hadaim |
| 2nd person sing. | hadad | hadaid |
| 3rd person sing. | hada | hadai |
| 1st person plural | hadunk | hadaink |
| 2nd person plural | hadatok | hadaitok |
| 3rd person plural | haduk | hadaik |
Derived termsEdit
(Compound words):
ReferencesEdit
- ^ András Róna-Tas & Árpád Berta, West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian. Part 2: L-Z, Conclusions, Apparatus (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011), 1277.
Jersey DutchEdit
VerbEdit
had
- had
- 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:
- En kääd'l had twî jongers; […]
- A man had two sons. […]
- En kääd'l had twî jongers; […]
- 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:
MatalEdit
NovialEdit
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“state, condition, rank, person”). Akin to Old Norse heiðr (“dignity, honor”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “manner”).
NounEdit
hād m (nominative plural hādas)
- person, individual; character
- individuality
- rank, order; degree
- honor, dignity
- office (esp religious)
- state, condition; nature, manner
- sex, gender
- race; kindred, family; tribe, group
- choir
DeclensionEdit
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SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *gadъ.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
had m (genitive singular hada, nominative plural hady, genitive plural hadov, declension pattern of dub)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- had in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Arabic حَدّ (ḥadd).
NounEdit
had (definite accusative hadı, plural hadlar)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | had | |
| Definite accusative | hadı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | had | hadlar |
| Definite accusative | hadı | hadları |
| Dative | hada | hadlara |
| Locative | hadda | hadlarda |
| Ablative | haddan | hadlardan |
| Genitive | hadın | hadların |