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    Definition of gives in English Dictionary

  • VerbBFgivePRgivingPTgavePPgiven
    1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of give.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • Stewart and his classmates gave Schmitz a hard time when she first arrived.' We tried to get over on her, but she always cracked down,' he said.'
        • I asked three different clerks, and they all gave me the brush-off.
        • "My goot woman, you must go to somepody else, I can't give away my monish."
      2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
        • Give me a few minutes to sort myself out and I'll be with you.
        • Give her time, and she may come around and see things your way.
        • Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue.
      3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
        • A new semisymmetrization functor, which maps the category of quasigroups with homotopies to the category of semisymmetric quasigroups with homomorphisms is given.
        • He may be your brother but he botches every job he's given.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Verbs
        • Verb forms
          • Verb singular forms
            • Third-person singular forms
      Related Links:
      1. en givest
      2. en gives in
      3. en gives up
      4. en gives off
      5. en gives way
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      Grammatically, this word "gives" is a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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