hast

Hast is the archaic second-person singular present tense of the verb have in English. It is most commonly encountered with the pronoun thou (thou hast), and appears in Early Modern English texts such as Shakespeare and the King James Bible. In contemporary English it is considered obsolete except in poetry, historical quotes, or certain dialects.

In German, hast is the present tense form of haben for the informal second-person singular, as in Du hast einen Traum. It is widely used in everyday speech and also appears in fixed phrases such as "Du hast Recht" (you are right). The formal address Sie haben uses a different form.

Origin and relation: The English hast derives from Old English hast, a form of habban (to have). The German hast comes from the same Germanic verb family as haben. Both forms derive from Proto-Germanic roots for the verb "to have" and are cognate across the languages, though they serve different grammatical roles today.