gave

From Middle English gaf, yaf, ȝaf, from Old English ġæf, ġeaf.

• (UK, US) enPR: gāv, IPA^(key): /ɡeɪv/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ɡeːv]
  • (Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): [ɡeːv], [ɡɛːv]

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

gave

1. simple past of give
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     I gaue thee Life, and rescu'd thee from Death.

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

     The superior degree of confidence towards Harriet, which this one article marked, gave her severe pain.

   • 2011 July 31, Bob Woffinden, The Guardian:

     With the Oxford canal at the bottom of his garden, regular canoeing excursions gave him enormous pleasure.

2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of give
   • c. 1916, Ring W. Lardner, The Courtship of T. Dorgan; republished in George W. Hilton, The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919‎, Stanford University Press, 1995, →ISBN, page 297:

     Well I suppose you will wonder what has happened to change my mind and if somebody has gave me a birthday present of $600.00 or something.

   • 1951, “Influence in Government Procurement”, in Hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee of Expenditures in the Executive Departments […] ‎, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 678:

     Mr. Green. No; not to my recollection, Senator. I may have gave Frank Prince some for his wife, or something like that.

   • 2012 August 10, James Kelman, A Chancer‎, Birlinn, →ISBN, page 6:

     I'm talking about redundancies, he said, that's what I'm talking about. And yous better get bloody used to the idea. One of the men shrugged: Ach well, we knew it was coming. That's as maybe but they should've gave us notice. Formal.

• given

• EVGA, Vega, vega

Borrowed from Middle Low German gābe, from Old Saxon *gāva, from Proto-West Germanic *gābā (“gift, giving”).

Cognate with German Gabe. Late Old Norse gáfa and Swedish gåva are probably also from Low German. It has replaced a similar word with a different shape: Danish gæv (“feed”), from Old Norse gjǫf (“gift”), from Proto-Germanic *gebō, cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰 (giba). Both words are ultimately derived from the verb *gebaną (“to give”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊æːʋə], [ˈɡ̊æːʊ]
• Rhymes: -aːvə

gave c (singular definite gaven, plural indefinite gaver)

1. gift, present
2. gift (a talent or natural ability)

• julegave

• “gave” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣaːvə/

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• Hyphenation: ga‧ve
• Rhymes: -aːvə

From Middle Dutch gave, from Old Dutch gāva, from Proto-West Germanic *gābā, from Proto-Germanic *gēbǭ, ablaut variant of *gebō.

gave f (plural gaven or gaves, diminutive gavetje n or gaafje n)

1. A gift, donation, present
2. A gift, talent

• (donation): geschenk, gift
• (talent): talent

• geven, gift, gif
• morgengave
• doorgave, opgave, overgave, toegave, uitgave, weergave

• Negerhollands: gaaf, gaeven

gave

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of geven

gave

1. inflection of gaaf:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

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gave

1. inflection of gaver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Probably same as Etymology 1, in the sense "to gorge, fill up".

gave m (plural gaves)

1. mountain torrent, watercourse, gorge.

• “gave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

gave f or m (definite singular gava or gaven, indefinite plural gaver, definite plural gavene)

1. a present or gift (something given to someone, e.g. for Christmas or a birthday)
2. a gift (a talent or natural ability)

• presang (sense 1 above)

• bryllupsgave
• gavekort
• julegave

• gåve (Nynorsk)

• “gave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

gave

1. locative singular of go (“cow, ox, bull”)