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I Həv Auxiliary Verb Bre Finished Work Home

Word have
WordType (auxiliary verb)
Phonetic BrE / həv / NAmE / həv /
Example
  • i've finished my work.
  • he's gone home, hasn't he?
  • ‘have you seen it?’ ‘yes, i have/no, i haven’t.’
  • she'll have had the results by now.
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have

(auxiliary verb)BrE / həv / NAmE / həv /
  1. used with the past participle to form perfect tenses
    • I've finished my work.
    • He's gone home, hasn't he?
    • ‘Have you seen it?’ ‘Yes, I have/No, I haven’t.’
    • She'll have had the results by now.
    • Had they left before you got there?
    • If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it.
    • Had I known that (= if I had known that) I would never have come.

    Verb Forms

    • present simple I / you / we / they have
    • have not
    • haven't
    • he / she / it has
    • has not
    • hasn't
    • past simple had
    • had not
    • hadn't
    • -ing form having

    Word Origin

    • Old English habban, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hebben and German haben, also probably to heave.
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