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have is a verb:
- To possess, own, hold.
"I have a house and a car." - To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
"I have two sisters." - To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
"I have breakfast at six o'clock." - Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
"I have already eaten today." - must.
"I have to go." - To give birth to.
"The couple always wanted to have children." - To engage in sexual intercourse with.
"He's always bragging about how many women he's had." - (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command or request.
"They had me feed their dog while they were out of town." - (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
"She had him arrested for trespassing." - (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
"The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week." - (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) 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." - Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below)
"We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?" - To defeat in a fight; take.
"I could have him!" - To be able to speak a language.
"I have no German"
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is have?
- Verb usage: I have a house and a car.
- Verb usage: Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
- Verb usage: I have two sisters.
- Verb usage: The dog down the street has a lax owner.
- Verb usage: I have breakfast at six o'clock.
- Verb usage: Can I have a look at that?
- Verb usage: I'm going to have some pizza and some Pepsi right now.
- Verb usage: I have already eaten today.
- Verb usage: I had already eaten.
- Verb usage: I have to go.
- Verb usage: Note: there's a separate entry for have to.
- Verb usage: The couple always wanted to have children.
- Verb usage: My wife is having the baby right now!
- Verb usage: He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
- Verb usage: They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
- Verb usage: She had him arrested for trespassing.
- Verb usage: The movie's ending had the entire audience in tears.
- Verb usage: The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
- Verb usage: I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
- Verb usage: Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
- Verb usage: We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
- Verb usage: Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
- Verb usage: He has some money, hasn't he?
- Verb usage: I could have him!
- Verb usage: I have no German
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of have are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of have, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
