yiven
- pastparticiple ofyive
Inherited fromOld Englishġiefan, fromProto-West Germanic*geban, fromProto-Germanic*gebaną, fromProto-Indo-European*gʰebʰ-. See also the doubletgiven.
yiven (third-person singular simple presentyiveth,present participleyivynge,first-/third-person singular past indicativeyaf,past participleyiven)
- togive
c.1386–1390,John Gower, “Book VII”, inReinhold Pauli, editor,Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume III, London:Bell and Daldy […], published1857,→OCLC,pages156–157:And than he laſſeth / And axeth but a litel peny, / If that the king woldyive him any. / The king anſwerd, it was to ſmall / For him, which was a lord reall, / Toyive a man ſo litel thinge, / It were unworſhip in a kinge.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation ofyiven (strong class 5/4)| infinitive | (to)yiven,yive |
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| present tense | past tense |
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| 1st-personsingular | yive | yaf,yef |
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| 2nd-personsingular | yivest | yeve1,yave1 |
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| 3rd-personsingular | yiveth | yaf,yef |
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| subjunctivesingular | yive | yeve2,yave2 |
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| imperativesingular | — |
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| plural3 | yiven,yive | yeven,yeve,yaven,yave |
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| imperativeplural | yiveth,yive | — |
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| participles | yivynge,yivende | yeven,yeve,yiven,yive,yoven,yove |
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1 Later replaced by the 1st-/3rd-person singular oryafest,yefest.
2 Later replaced by the indicative.
3 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
