Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hove
Participle: hoved
Gerund: hoving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hove |
| you | hove |
| he;she;it | hoves |
| we | hove |
| you | hove |
| they | hove |
Perfect
| I | have hoved |
| you | have hoved |
| he;she;it | has hoved |
| we | have hoved |
| you | have hoved |
| they | have hoved |
Past
| I | hoved |
| you | hoved |
| he;she;it | hoved |
| we | hoved |
| you | hoved |
| they | hoved |
Pluperfect
| I | had hoved |
| you | had hoved |
| he;she;it | had hoved |
| we | had hoved |
| you | had hoved |
| they | had hoved |
Future
| I | will hove |
| you | will hove |
| he;she;it | will hove |
| we | will hove |
| you | will hove |
| they | will hove |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hoved |
| you | will have hoved |
| he;she;it | will have hoved |
| we | will have hoved |
| you | will have hoved |
| they | will have hoved |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hove |
| you | hove |
| he;she;it | hove |
| we | hove |
| you | hove |
| they | hove |
Perfect
| I | have hoved |
| you | have hoved |
| he;she;it | have hoved |
| we | have hoved |
| you | have hoved |
| they | have hoved |
Imperfect
| I | hoved |
| you | hoved |
| he;she;it | hoved |
| we | hoved |
| you | hoved |
| they | hoved |
Pluperfect
| I | had hoved |
| you | had hoved |
| he;she;it | had hoved |
| we | had hoved |
| you | had hoved |
| they | had hoved |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hove |
| you | would hove |
| he;she;it | would hove |
| we | would hove |
| you | would hove |
| they | would hove |
Perfect
| I | would have hoved |
| you | would have hoved |
| he;she;it | would have hoved |
| we | would have hoved |
| you | would have hoved |
| they | would have hoved |
Imperative
| you | hove |
| we | Let's hove |
| you | hove |
Verbs conjugated like 'hove'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hove'
cove,
gove,
have,
hive,
hode,
hoe,
hoke,
hole,
home,
hone,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English hoven (“to linger, wait, hover, move aside, entertain, cherish, foster”), from Old English *hofian (“to receive into one's house”), from Proto-Germanic *hufōną (“to house, lodge”), from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, height, farm, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *keup- (“to arch, bend, buckle”).
2. Cognate with Old Frisian hovia (“to receive into one's home, entertain”), Old Dutch hoven (“to receive into one's home, entertain”). Related to Old English hof (“court, house, dwelling”). More at hovel. See: Old Frisian 'hovia'.
Sample Sentences
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As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before[…]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:]