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"had (singular)" in Dutch

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The Dutch translation for “had (singular)” is had.

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had gehad
to have hebben
have (plural) hebben
have (2nd person singular in a question or command) heb
have (2nd person singular) hebt
have (1st person singular) heb
had (plural) hadden
have (2nd person formal) heeft

Examples of "had" in use

There are 79 examples of the Dutch word for "had" being used:
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I wish you had called ahead. Ik wou dat je van tevoren had gebeld.
Tom should’ve protected Mary. Tom had Maria moeten beschermen.
The fire had a devastating effect. De brand had een verwoestend effect.
Her little feet she had drawn under her Haar voetjes had zij naar zich toe getrokken
She had little experience; nevertheless, she got the job. Ze had weinig ervaring; niettemin kreeg ze de baan.
Tom said that he didn’t think that Mary was hungry. Tom zei dat hij er niet aan gedacht had dat Maria honger had.
“I had never imagined such happiness, when I was still an ugly duckling!” «Zoveel geluk had ik mij niet kunnen voorstellen, toen ik nog een lelijk eendje was!»
When she left the house she must have been wearing slippers; but what did that help? Toen zij het huis uitging, had zij wel is waar pantoffels aangehad; maar wat hielp dat?
One slipper was nowhere to be found, and the other one was taken by a boy who ran off with it. De ene pantoffel was niet weer te vinden, en de andere had een jongen opgeraapt en snelde er mee weg.
No one could imagine the beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother, on New Year’s Day. Niemand had er enig vermoeden van, wat al schoons zij gezien had, in welk een glans zij met haar grootmoeder het nieuwe jaar ingetreden was.

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Actually, he should have been torn to pieces.,
After he had received a new kidney, he no longer had to have dialysis.,
After he’d been at the festival, he had problems with his hearing.,
because the arrow had hit a tendon in his neck,
but he felt something towards them as he had never felt for anything else,
but she had poor eyesight, and therefore she thought, that this duckling must be a fat duck, who had got lost,
for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who had now passed away, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.,
Gustav was so distracted early this morning that he accidentally put on two different socks.,
Harry had wandered through the school for three consecutive nights,
He had asked for 50 euros.,
He had never looked so disturbed.,
He had nightmares.,
He now felt so glad at all the suffering and hardships which he had undergone.,
He turned his back on me when I needed him most.,
Her little feet she had drawn under her,
I shouldn’t have called.,
I shouldn’t have eaten that.,
I shouldn’t have gotten so angry.,
If I had the money, I’d buy a new house.,
it had an open window
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