иметь

• имѣ́ть (imě́tʹ) — pre-1918 spelling

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьměti. Compare Belarusian мець (mjecʹ), Bulgarian имам (imam), Ukrainian ма́ти (máty), Polish mieć, Serbo-Croatian имати/imati, Old Church Slavonic имѣти (iměti).

• IPA^(key): [ɪˈmʲetʲ]

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име́ть • (imétʹ) impf (verbal noun име́ние)

1. to have, to possess quotations ▼

   Я хочу́ име́ть друзе́й. ― Ja xočú imétʹ druzéj. ― I want to have friends.

   • 1876, Russian Synodal Bible, Mark 6:18:

     Ибо Иоанн говорил Ироду: не должно тебе иметь жену брата твоего.

     Ibo Ioann govoril Irodu: ne dolžno tebe imetʹ ženu brata tvojevo.

     John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

2. (euphemistic, colloquial) to fuck, to have

   име́ть кого́-то ― imétʹ kovó-to ― to fuck someone (literally, “to have someone”)

3. (archaic) to have to; to be obliged (to do something)

Иметь is rarely used in Russian with the sense of 'have', except with abstract concepts, most often in set expressions (име́ть в виду́ (imétʹ v vidú, “to mean, to have in mind”), име́ть права́ (imétʹ pravá, “to have rights”), etc.). The most common way to express possession is "у (u) + possessor [in the genitive] + есть (jestʹ) + possession [in the nominative]". However, иметь (imetʹ) is commonly used when an infinitive is needed, as in the above example sentence.

• внима́ние n (vnimánije), понима́ние n (ponimánije), приём m (prijóm), объём m (obʺjóm)
• внима́ть (vnimátʹ), понима́ть impf (ponimátʹ), снима́ть impf (snimátʹ) взять (vzjatʹ), приня́ть (prinjátʹ), объя́ть (obʺjátʹ)
• внима́тельно (vnimátelʹno)