give

give is on the Basic English 850 List.

girl - give - glass

give is one of the 1000 most common headwords.

girl - give - glass

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /gɪv/
• SAMPA: /gIv/

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Verb

Plain form give

Third-person singular gives

Past tense gave

Past participle given

Present participle giving

1. If you give something to someone else, you had the thing and you let the other person have it. Maybe you use your hands to put the thing in the other person's hands. Usually after that, the thing is the other person's thing.

   Give me that book, please; I want to read it.

   My mother gave me this stone when I was young.

2. If you give a speech, you talk to a group of people.

• 
  A man giving a knife to a woman
• 
  A man giving a note to a woman
• 
  A man giving a newspaper to another man

Synonyms

• hand

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