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

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: […], volume (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[1], 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 […] ‎[2], 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[3], 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.

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”).

gave c (singular definite gaven, plural indefinite gaver)

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

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
    Synonyms: geschenk, gift, cadeau
  2. a gift, talent
    Synonym: talent

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gave

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gave

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

See main entry

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 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)

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gave

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