# gave
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) enPR: gāv, IPA: /ɡeɪv/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (Canada) IPA: [ɡeːv]
** (Ottawa Valley) IPA: [ɡeːv], [ɡɛːv]
* Rhymes: -eɪv

### Verb

gave
* 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.
* (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.

### See also

* given

### Anagrams

* EVGA, Vega, vega

## Danish
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡ̊æːʋə], [ˈɡ̊æːʊ]
* Rhymes: -aːvə

### Noun

gave c (singular definite gaven, plural indefinite gaver)
* gift, present
* gift (a talent or natural ability)

#### Derived terms

* julegave

### References

* “gave” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɣaːvə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ga‧ve
* Rhymes: -aːvə

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

gave f (plural gaven or gaves, diminutive gavetje n or gaafje n)
* a gift, donation, present
* a gift, talent

##### Synonyms

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

##### Related terms

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

##### Descendants

* Negerhollands: gaaf, gaeven

#### Verb

gave
* (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of geven

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

gave
* inflection of gaaf:
** masculine/feminine singular attributive
** definite neuter singular attributive
** plural attributive

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

See main entry

#### Verb

gave
* inflection of gaver:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

gave m (plural gaves)
* mountain torrent, watercourse, gorge.

### References

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

gave f or m (definite singular gava or gaven, indefinite plural gaver, definite plural gavene)
* a present or gift (something given to someone, e.g. for Christmas or a birthday)
* a gift (a talent or natural ability)

#### Synonyms

* presang (sense 1 above)

#### Derived terms

* bryllupsgave
* gavekort
* julegave

### See also

* gåve (Nynorsk)

### References

* “gave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀕𑀯𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* गवे (Devanagari script)
* গৰে (Bengali script)
* ගවෙ (Sinhalese script)
* ဂဝေ or ၷဝေ (Burmese script)
* คเว or คะเว (Thai script)
* ᨣᩅᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ຄເວ or ຄະເວ (Lao script)
* គវេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄉𑅇𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Noun

gave
* locative singular of go (“cow, ox, bull”)