Has
verbThird person singular present form of 'have', meaning to possess, hold, or experience something.
How to spell has
3 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce has
What does has mean?
- verbThird person singular present form of 'have', meaning to possess, hold, or experience something.
Has in a sentence
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She has three meetings booked for this afternoon.
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The new flat has a small balcony overlooking the park.
Where does has come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
The word comes from Old English, where the verb habban meant 'to hold, own, or possess'. Has is its third person singular present form, descended from the Old English hafast and hafath, which over centuries smoothed down to the modern single-syllable shape. The root traces back to a Proto-Germanic verb habjana, also seen in Dutch hebben and German haben, all sharing the sense of holding or possessing. Despite an old and tempting theory linking it to Latin habere, scholars regard that resemblance as coincidental rather than a true family connection. The spelling stays reassuringly plain: just the base sound plus the standard -s ending that English attaches to he, she, and it.
How the word is built
- ha- (from Old English habban: to have)
- -s (third person singular present ending)
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