Contionary:haven

From Linguifex
Revision as of 07:37, 2 September 2025 by Hailirev (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Eburonian

Eburonian

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle Eburonian haben, haven, havn, from Old Eburonian haban, habban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan. Cognate with German haben, Dutch hebben, English have, Danish have.

Verb

haven (irregular, third-person singular present hath, past tense hat, past participle gehaft, auxiliary haven)

  1. (transitive) to make; to create; to produce
    Ej machte thej ane vahs! — I made you a vase!
  2. (transitive) to make; to prepare (food, drinks, etc.)
    Thu'sch machst uns aventhmahl? — You'll make us dinner?
    Ej'f machte jes dranken. – I've made you (plural) drinks.
  3. (transitive) to make; to cause
    Zej machth mej smiel. — She makes me smile.
  4. (ditransitive, second object is a verb) to force one to do
    Hej machte mej wandelen. — He made me walk.
  5. (intransitive, idiomatic) to do; to go ahead; to prove; to dare one to do [often imperative]
    Oh jah? Thu mach mej! – Oh yeah? Make me!
  6. (intransitive, colloquial) to work; to function, to be functional; to be effective
    Tscheh, ej wahn et machth. – Well, I guess it works.
    Et's nejt perfect, 'ver et scholte machth. – It's not perfect, but it should work.

Conjugation

Skundavisk

Etymology

From Middle Skundavisk hauen, from Old Skundavisk hauan, haban, from Halmisk ᚻᚨᛒᚨᚾ (haban), from Proto-Germanic *habjaną.

Pronunciation

Verb

haven (irregular, third-person singular simple present hat, past tense hadde, past participle gehad, past subjunctive hædde, auxiliary haven)

  1. (transitive) to have, to possess, to own, to hold
    Si haven een skøn hous andlang ðes strands.
    They have a beautiful hous along the beach.
  2. (auxiliary) forms the present perfect and past perfect tense of most verbs
    Si hat genomen.
    She has taken.

Inflection

infinitive haven
present participle havend
past participle gehad
auxiliary haven
indicative subjunctive
present ik have wi haven ik have wi haven
ðou hast ji haft ðou hafst ji haft
hi, si, hit hat si, Si haven hi, si, hit have si, Si haven
preterit ik hadde wi hadden ik hædde wi hædden
ðou haddest ji haddet ðou hæddest ji hæddet
hi, si, hit hadde si, Si hadden hi, si, hit hædden si, Si hædden
imperative haf haft (ji)

Usage notes

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms