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See also: Appendix:Variations of "had"
Translingual
Symbol
had
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English
Etymology
From Middle English hadde (preterite), yhad (past participle), from Old English hæfde (first and third person singular preterite), ġehæfd (past participle), from Proto-Germanic *habdaz, past and past participle stem of *habjaną (“to have”), equivalent to have + -ed. Cognate with Dutch had, German hatte, Swedish hade, Icelandic hafði.
Pronunciation
Verb
had
- simple past and past participle of have
- This morning I had an egg for breakfast.
- A good time was had by all.
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, 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, followed by a past participle) Used to form the past perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past.
- I felt sure that I had seen him before.
- When I'd (already) done some exercise, I had a cappuccino.
- 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?
- (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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- 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, section 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.
- 1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:
- CAESAR (smiling). Of course I had rather you stayed.
Usage notes
Had, like that, is one of a small number of words to be correctly used twice in succession in English in a non-contrived way, e.g. “He had had several operations previously.”
Derived terms
Anagrams
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Verb
had
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *had, from Proto-Celtic *satos, from *sh₁-tó-, past participle of Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.
Noun
had m (plural hadoù)
Central Cagayan Agta
Pronoun
had
- (interrogative) where
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech had, from Proto-Slavic *gadъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
had m anim (relational adjective hadí)
Declension
Declension of had (hard masculine animate)
Derived terms
Related terms
- hadice f
Further reading
- “had”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “had”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “had”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
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Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish hath, from Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“hate”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ad
Noun
had n (singular definite hadet, not used in plural form)
Declension
Derived terms
- fremmedhad n
- had-kærlighed c
- had-kærligheds-forhold n
- hade
- hadebesked
- hadebrev
- hadefuld
- hadefuldhed
- hademail
- hadeobjekt
- hadforbrydelse
- hadfyldt
- hadkriminalitet
- hadprædikant
- hadsk
- jødehad
- kvindehad
- lægge for had
- mandehad
- racehad n
- selvhad n
- svenskerhad
- tyskerhad
See also
Verb
had
- imperative of hade
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Pronunciation
Verb
had
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