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Verbs
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Imperfect tense ik had (plural hadden) I had
Perfect tense ik heb gehad I have had
Pluperfect tense ik had gehad I had had
Future tense ik zal hebben I will have
Future perfect tense ik zal gehad hebben I will have had
Conditional tense ik zou hebben I would have (or contracted
to ik had, see 11.2.7)
Conditional perfect tense ik zou gehad hebben I would have had
(or contracted to ik had gehad, see 11.1.8)
Imperative heb!
The imperative forms hebt u and hebben
jullie exist but are not common, as indeed is
the imperative of hebben generally.
Subjunctive: The third person of the present subjunctive
occurs in certain standard expressions, e.g.
God hebbe zijn ziel ‘(May) God rest his
soul’.
Occasionally in older literature the past
subjunctive form hadde is also found.
11.6.2
Uses of hebben
For hebben as an auxiliary verb in perfect tenses see 11.1.3 and 11.7.2.2.
The following expressions comprising the verb ‘to be’ in English are
expressed with hebben in Dutch:
dienst hebben to be on duty
dorst hebben to be thirsty
(on)gelijk hebben to be (wrong) right
geluk hebben to be in luck
haast hebben to be in a hurry (see 16.1.4.4)
honger hebben to be hungry
pech hebben to be unlucky
slaap hebben to be sleepy
vakantie hebben to be on holidays
vrij hebben to be off (from work)