Verb + Ved in Spanish

I found this in First 5000 Words of Spanish:

“haber” - to have (+Ved).

What is “Ved” please? I have tried to look it up online but found no response.

There is a course forum for this course here

From a quick look, a ‘course contributor’ is active there and may be able to help.

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Thank you, alanh.

Good luck! I’m doing some Spanish courses, too, and it means nothing to me either.
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@daisy2chain

I’m one of the contributors for the course First 5000 Words of Spanish by xoviat

I don’t believe that haber is included in this course, and wonder if you’re actually referring to a different course?

Whatever course, I believe Ved means past participle. V for verb, -ed for what has happened or been done to the verb. Somebody at one time (decades ago) thought this would be easier to understand than saying past participle. Basically, it’s saying “The verb participle with -ed” (if a regular verb in English).

In English regular verbs, “We have planted.” the past participle is V(plant) + ed ending, ergo have+Ved.

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Thanks @lurajane. I think you’ve cracked it! :relieved:

The entry in question is actually in this course: http://www.memrise.com/course/248520/5000-top-spanish-words-with-audio/ and the entry is in Level 1.

It doesn’t look like the course creator is currently active on the site.

There is a preview of the course’s source document here: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SVq9tjgBTVwC&pg=PT8&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false and, although “Ved” isn’t included in the list of abbreviations, there is mention of the special treatment of the verb haber in the section under the heading “Annotating the Data from the Corpus”.

Scrolling further down, is a section headed “Frequency Index” (which forms Level 1 of the course), where the entry for haber is to be found.

All this is a bit ‘heavy’ for me, though. This is a bit more up my street: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/conjugating-the-spanish-verb-haber-to-have.html :grinning:

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The name of the actual course is “! 5000 top Spanish words with AUDIO.”