have
/ˈhæv/ verb A1- To possess, own. · I have a house and a car.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity). · Can I have a look at that?· He's having a tantrum about it.
- 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.
- 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.
Plural have · He/she/it has · Past had · Past participle had · -ing form having
Verb forms
- Base form
- have
- He/she/it
- has
- Past
- had
- Past participle
- had
- -ing form
- having
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“If I were sole owner we’d shake hands on it now, my dear Dantès, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—‘He who has a partner has a master.’ But the thing is at least half done, as you have one out of two votes.
Have you been satisfied with him this voyage?”
No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
If you mean as responsible agent when you ask me the question, I believe there is nothing to say against him, and that you will be content with the way in which he has performed his duty.”
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