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German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhaːbəns/
- Hyphenation: ha‧bens
Contraction
habens
- Contraction of haben es.
1843, Brothers Grimm, “Die zwei Brüder”, in Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Band 1, 5th edition, page 369:Sprach der Jäger „warum wird der Drache nicht getödtet?“ „Ach,“ antwortete der Wirth, „so viele Ritter habens versucht, aber allesammt ihr Leben eingebüßt; der König hat dem, der den Drachen besiegt, seine Tochter zur Frau versprochen und daß er nach seinem Tode das Reich erben solle.“- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of habeō (“have, hold”).
Pronunciation
Participle
habēns (genitive habentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- having, holding
- owning
- possessing
- retaining, maintaining
- accepting, bearing, enduring
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants
References
- “habens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers