behave
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-der.
Proto-Germanic *habjaną
Proto-West Germanic *habbjan
Proto-West Germanic *bihabbjan
Old English behabban
Middle English behaven
English behave
From Middle English behaven, bihabben (“to restrain, behave”), from Old English behabban (“to surround, embrace, hold, contain, hold back, withhold, restrain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihabbjan, equivalent to be- + have. Cognate with Middle Low German behebben, behāven (“to receive, acquire, reach, keep”), Low German behebben (“to act, behave”), German behaben (“to behave”).
Base: have
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: behaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: behaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: behaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: behaved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: behave
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: behave
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: behaved
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: behave
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: behavest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: behaved
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: behavedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: behaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: behaveth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: behaved
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: behave
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: behaved
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: behave
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: behaved
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: behave
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: behaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: behaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way; to conform.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: You need to behave yourself, young lady.
And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that behaved themselves manfully to their honour for Judaism[…]
gloss: To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He behaves like a child whenever she's around.
How did the students behave while I was gone?
My laptop has been behaving erratically ever since you borrowed it.
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
gloss: To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
But who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.
gloss: To act in a polite or proper way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His mother threatened to spank him if he didn't behave.
One time when Willie was more set on clowning than on learning about Jesus, Miss Helen ordered, "Willie Mack, you stand up against the wall until you learn to behave."
Related words: behavior
behaviour
behavioral
behavioural
behaviorist
behaviourist
behaviorism
behaviourism
Derived words: behave oneself
behaver
misbehave
Translations: