gaver

See also: Gaver, gavër, and gåver

Danish

Noun

gaver c

1. indefinite plural of gave

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

gaver

1. comparative degree of gaaf

French

Etymology

From Old French dialect gave, doublet of joue (“cheek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ve/

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Verb

gaver

1. (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?

2. (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" …

3. (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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• gavage

 

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

• grave, gravé

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gaver m or f

1. indefinite plural of gave

Venetan

Verb

gaver

1. Alternative form of aver