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Had

//həd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of have form-of, participle, past

    "This morning I had an egg for breakfast."

  2. 2
    Used to form the past perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past. auxiliary

    "I felt sure that I had seen him before."

  3. 3
    As past subjunctive: would have. archaic, auxiliary

    "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[…]."

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.

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