Hadded

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in Swedish supine conjugation, had is haft, not hade as in past participle.

in English, I notice had takes only this form.

so I could not say

much luck was hadded by me

the hadded is the supine conjugation, but the ed ending is merged into had and dissapears?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Anonymousthe hadded is the supine conjugation, but the ed ending is merged into had and dissapears?

Have is an irregular verb.
The past participle and the past are "had."
Regular verbs add -d or -ed to make the past and past participle. If "have" were regular, the past would be "haved."

"Save" and "pave" are regular. The past forms are "saved" and "paved."

The supine is not the same thing in all highly-inflected languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supine

GPY · Answer

"had" already incorporates the "-ed" sense, so it doesn't make sense to add another "-ed".

"had" is to "have" as "loved" is to "love", so "hadded" would be like "loveded".

It seems feasible (though I am happy to be corrected on this) that "had" is a corruption of "haved".

AlpheccaStars · Answer

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/had:

Old English habban "to own, possess; be subject to, experience," from Proto-Germanic *haben- (cf. Old Norse hafa, Old Saxon hebbjan, Old Frisian habba, German haben, Gothic haban "to have"), from PIE *kap- "to grasp" . Old English second person singular present hæfst, third person singular present hæfð became Middle English hast, hath, while Old English -bb- became -v- in have. The past participle had developed from Old English gehæfd.

Joseph Krolow · Answer

Hadded is not a real word, correct. It's kind of like Swedish where you don't say 'haver' anymore, you just say 'har.'

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