Skip to content
Otti has a small red backpack.
Otti hat einen kleinen roten Rucksack. Otti has a small red backpack.

verb · A1

haben

[ˈhaːbn̩]

to have

Learn This Word with Otti

My Note

With an account, you keep your own note to every word: a memory trick, an example of your own, where you heard it. Create an account

Already have an account? Log in.

Other Examples

Grammar

Present
er/sie/es hat What happens now or usually.
Simple past (Präteritum)
er/sie/es hatte The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfect (Perfekt)
er/sie/es hat gehabt The past in conversation. Verbs of movement or change take "ist", most others "hat".

Phrases With This Word

Conjugation

The verb in every person; under each table, when German uses it.

Indikativ
Person Präsens Präteritum Perfekt
ich habehattehabe gehabt
du hasthattesthast gehabt
er/sie/es hathattehat gehabt
wir habenhattenhaben gehabt
ihr habthattethabt gehabt
sie/Sie habenhattenhaben gehabt
Präsens
What happens now or usually; with a time word also the future.
Präteritum
The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfekt
The past in conversation.
More Tenses and Moods
Indikativ
Person Plusquamperfekt Futur I Futur II
ich hatte gehabtwerde habenwerde gehabt haben
du hattest gehabtwirst habenwirst gehabt haben
er/sie/es hatte gehabtwird habenwird gehabt haben
wir hatten gehabtwerden habenwerden gehabt haben
ihr hattet gehabtwerdet habenwerdet gehabt haben
sie/Sie hatten gehabtwerden habenwerden gehabt haben
Plusquamperfekt
What had happened before another moment in the past.
Futur I
Plans, promises and guesses about the future; often the Präsens is enough.
Futur II
What will be finished by a moment in the future, or a guess about the past.
Person Konjunktiv II
ich hätte
du hättest
er/sie/es hätte
wir hätten
ihr hättet
sie/Sie hätten
Konjunktiv II
Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.
Person Imperativ
du hab!
ihr habt!
Sie haben Sie!
Imperativ
Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.

How the Word Is Built

hab root en ending

-en
the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.

Word family

vorhabendas Guthaben

In Otti's situations: Otti meets Frida

Other Dictionaries

The dictionary opens here from its own site, which then sees your IP address. Nothing loads before you choose one.

Learn these words with Otti

A few minutes a day; Otti brings each word back right before you would forget it.