gaver
Danish
Noun
gaver c
- indefinite plural of gave
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
gaver
- comparative degree of gaaf
French
Etymology
From Old French dialect gave, doublet of joue (“cheek”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡa.ve/
Audio: (file)
Verb
gaver
- (transitive) to force-feed
- 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 11; republished as Frank Wynne, transl., 2018:
- Eliminer son prochain est la règle d’or de jeux dont on les a gavés au biberon. Comment leur demander, aujourd'hui, de trouver ça morbide ?
- Eliminate thy neighbour is the golden rule of the games they have been spoonfed since childhood. How can one now expect them to find it morbid?
- (reflexive) to gorge oneself; to overeat
- 1904, Jean Morovan, Le Soldat Impérial (1800-1814)[1], volume 1, Plon, →OCLC, page 300:
- Les élèves profitent des séances de levés de plan ou de tir au canon pour se gaver de patisseries ; il en résulte pour eux force indigestions ; le médecin trouve plaisamment « le canon de l'école aussi dangereux que celui de l'ennemi » …
- The students took the opportunity of classes on shooting cannons to gorge themselves on pastries; this resulted in much indigestion, to the point a doctor jokingly opined that "the school's cannon is as dangerous as the enemy's" …
- (transitive, slang) to fill up, exasperate
- Synonym: souler
- Tu me gaves avec tes reproches
Conjugation
Conjugation of gaver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | gaver | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gavant /ɡa.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gavé /ɡa.ve/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gave /ɡav/ |
gaves /ɡav/ |
gave /ɡav/ |
gavons /ɡa.vɔ̃/ |
gavez /ɡa.ve/ |
gavent /ɡav/ |
| imperfect | gavais /ɡa.vɛ/ |
gavais /ɡa.vɛ/ |
gavait /ɡa.vɛ/ |
gavions /ɡa.vjɔ̃/ |
gaviez /ɡa.vje/ |
gavaient /ɡa.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gavai /ɡa.ve/ |
gavas /ɡa.va/ |
gava /ɡa.va/ |
gavâmes /ɡa.vam/ |
gavâtes /ɡa.vat/ |
gavèrent /ɡa.vɛʁ/ | |
| future | gaverai /ɡa.vʁe/ |
gaveras /ɡa.vʁa/ |
gavera /ɡa.vʁa/ |
gaverons /ɡa.vʁɔ̃/ |
gaverez /ɡa.vʁe/ |
gaveront /ɡa.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | gaverais /ɡa.vʁɛ/ |
gaverais /ɡa.vʁɛ/ |
gaverait /ɡa.vʁɛ/ |
gaverions /ɡa.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
gaveriez /ɡa.və.ʁje/ |
gaveraient /ɡa.vʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gave /ɡav/ |
gaves /ɡav/ |
gave /ɡav/ |
gavions /ɡa.vjɔ̃/ |
gaviez /ɡa.vje/ |
gavent /ɡav/ |
| imperfect2 | gavasse /ɡa.vas/ |
gavasses /ɡa.vas/ |
gavât /ɡa.va/ |
gavassions /ɡa.va.sjɔ̃/ |
gavassiez /ɡa.va.sje/ |
gavassent /ɡa.vas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gave /ɡav/ |
— | gavons /ɡa.vɔ̃/ |
gavez /ɡa.ve/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
- gaveur m (noun)
- gaveuse f (noun)
Further reading
- “gaver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
gaver m or f
- indefinite plural of gave
Venetan
Verb
gaver
- alternative form of aver