FromMiddle Englishgaf,yaf,ȝaf, fromOld Englishġæf,ġeaf.

• (UK,US)enPR:gāv,IPA^(key):/ɡeɪv/

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• (Canada)IPA^(key):[ɡeːv]
  • (Ottawa Valley)IPA^(key):[ɡeːv],[ɡɛːv]
• Rhymes:-eɪv

gave

1. simplepast ofgive
   • 1591 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,(please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Igaue thee Life, and rescu'd thee from Death.

   • 1815 December (indicated as1816), [Jane Austen],Emma: […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:[…][Charles Roworth and James Moyes] forJohn 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 excursionsgave him enormous pleasure.

2. (colloquial,nonstandard)pastparticiple ofgive
   • 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, page297:

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

   • 1951, “Influence in Government Procurement”, inHearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee of Expenditures in the Executive Departments[…]‎^[2], U.S. Government Printing Office, page678:

     Mr.Green. No; not to my recollection, Senator. I may havegave 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. Andyous 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'vegave us notice. Formal.

• given

• EVGA,Vega,vega

Borrowed fromMiddle Low Germangābe, fromOld Saxon*gāva, fromProto-West Germanic*gābā(“gift, giving”).

Cognate withGermanGabe. LateOld Norsegáfa andSwedishgåva are probably also from Low German. It has replaced a similar word with a different shape:Danishgæv(“feed”), fromOld Norsegjǫf(“gift”), fromProto-Germanic*gebō, cognate withGothic𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰(giba). Both words are ultimately derived from the verb*gebaną(“to give”).

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

gave c (singular definitegaven,plural indefinitegaver)

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

• julegave

• “gave” inDen Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key):/ˈɣaːvə/

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• Hyphenation:ga‧ve
• Rhymes:-aːvə

FromMiddle Dutchgave, fromOld Dutchgāva, fromProto-West Germanic*gābā, fromProto-Germanic*gēbǭ, ablaut variant of*gebō.

gave f (pluralgavenorgaves,diminutivegavetje norgaafje n)

1. agift,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)singularpastsubjunctive ofgeven

gave

1. inflection ofgaaf:
   1. masculine/femininesingularattributive
   2. definiteneutersingularattributive
   3. pluralattributive

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gave

1. inflection ofgaver:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
   2. second-personsingularimperative

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

gave m (pluralgaves)

1. mountain torrent, watercourse, gorge.

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

gave f orm (definite singulargavaorgaven,indefinite pluralgaver,definite pluralgavene)

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

• presang (sense 1 above)

• bryllupsgave
• gavekort
• julegave

• gåve(Nynorsk)

• “gave” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

gave

1. locativesingular ofgo(“cow, ox, bull”)