Meanings
verbhave sex (third-person singular simple present has sex, present participle having sex, simple past and past participle had sex)
present singular third person has sex · participle present having sex · participle past had sex · past had sex
- To engage in sex.
You do not need much space to have sex. That was the feisty rejoinder from Senior Minister of State Josephine Teo […] to a question on whether young people are not getting their flats early enough to have children.
2016 October 12, Janice Tai, “You don't need much space to have sex: Josephine Teo on ‘no flat, no child’ belief”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2017
Synonyms & antonyms
verbhave sexual intercourse with
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Ancient Greek συνουσιάζω, ἐπιμείγνυμι
- συνουσιάζω (sunousiázō)take part in a sexual act
- ἐπιμείγνυμι (epimeígnumi)take part in a sexual act
Bulgarian правя секс
- правя секс (pravja seks)take part in a sexual act
Catalan fer l'amor
- fer l'amortake part in a sexual act
Chinese Cantonese 扑嘢, 做愛 /做爱
- 扑嘢 (bok¹ je⁵)take part in a sexual act
- 做愛 /做爱 (zou⁶ oi³)take part in a sexual act
- 行房take part in a sexual act
Chinese Mandarin 做愛 /做爱, 性交
- 做愛 /做爱 (zuò'ài)take part in a sexual act
- 性交 (xìngjiāo)take part in a sexual act
- 行房 (xíngfáng)take part in a sexual act
Czech souložit
- souložittake part in a sexual act
Danish ha sex, dyrke sex
- ha sextake part in a sexual act
- dyrke sextake part in a sexual act
Dutch seks hebben, vrijen
- seks hebbentake part in a sexual act
- vrijentake part in a sexual act
- neukentake part in a sexual act
Esperanto seksumi
- seksumitake part in a sexual act
Estonian seksima
- seksimatake part in a sexual act
Finnish harrastaa seksiä, rakastella
- harrastaa seksiäto engage in sex
- rakastellatake part in a sexual act
- harrastaa seksiätake part in a sexual act
French avoir des relations sexuelles, baiser
- avoir des relations sexuellestake part in a sexual act
- baisertake part in a sexual act
- faire l'amourtake part in a sexual act
German Sex haben
- Sex habentake part in a sexual act
Greek κάνω σεξ, συνουσιάζομαι
- κάνω σεξ (káno sex)take part in a sexual act
- συνουσιάζομαι (synousiázomai)take part in a sexual act
- συνευρίσκομαι (synevrískomai)take part in a sexual act
Hindi मैथुन करना, संभोग करना
- मैथुन करना (maithun karnā)take part in a sexual act
- संभोग करना (sambhog karnā)take part in a sexual act
Hungarian szexel, szeretkezik
- szexeltake part in a sexual act
- szeretkeziktake part in a sexual act
- szerelmeskediktake part in a sexual act
- közösültake part in a sexual act
Icelandic sofa saman, stunda kynlíf
- sofa samantake part in a sexual act
- stunda kynlíftake part in a sexual act
- rekkja meðtake part in a sexual act
- njóta ástatake part in a sexual act
- hafa kynferðislegt samræðitake part in a sexual act
- njóta kynferðislegs samræðistake part in a sexual act
Italian fare sesso, fare l'amore
- fare sessotake part in a sexual act
- fare l'amoretake part in a sexual act
Japanese はめ倒す, 嵌める
- はめ倒す (hametaosu)take part in a sexual act
- 嵌める (hameru)take part in a sexual act
- セックスをする (sekkusu o suru)take part in a sexual act
- 性交する (seikō suru)take part in a sexual act
- エッチする (etchi suru)take part in a sexual act
Korean 성교하다, 섹스하다
- 성교하다 (seonggyohada)take part in a sexual act
- 섹스하다 (sekseuhada)take part in a sexual act
Latin concumbō, coeō
- concumbōtake part in a sexual act
- coeōtake part in a sexual act
Malay berasmara, bersenggama
- berasmaratake part in a sexual act
- bersenggamatake part in a sexual act
- bersanggamatake part in a sexual act
- beramputtake part in a sexual act
Māori pororua
- pororuatake part in a sexual act
Norwegian ligge sammen, ha sex
- ligge sammentake part in a sexual act
- ha sextake part in a sexual act
- samleietake part in a sexual act
Persian همبستر شدن
- همبستر شدن (ham-bastar šodan)take part in a sexual act
Polish uprawiać seks
- uprawiać sekstake part in a sexual act
Portuguese transar, fazer sexo
- transartake part in a sexual act
- fazer sexotake part in a sexual act
- fazer amortake part in a sexual act
Romanian face sex
- face sextake part in a sexual act
Russian занима́ться се́ксом, заня́ться се́ксом
- занима́ться се́ксом (zanimátʹsja sɛ́ksom)take part in a sexual act
- заня́ться се́ксом (zanjátʹsja sɛ́ksom)take part in a sexual act
- занима́ться любо́вью (zanimátʹsja ljubóvʹju)take part in a sexual act
- заня́ться любо́вью (zanjátʹsja ljubóvʹju)take part in a sexual act
- сноша́ться (snošátʹsja)take part in a sexual act
- совокупля́ться (sovokupljátʹsja)take part in a sexual act
Slovak sexovať, súložiť
- sexovaťtake part in a sexual act
- súložiťtake part in a sexual act
Spanish tener sexo, tener sexo
- tener sexoto engage in sex
- tener sexotake part in a sexual act
Swedish ha sex
- ha sextake part in a sexual act
Thai มีเพศสัมพันธ์, ประเวณี
- มีเพศสัมพันธ์ (mii pêet sǎm-pan)take part in a sexual act
- ประเวณี (bprà-wee-nii)take part in a sexual act
- หลับนอน (làp-nɔɔn)take part in a sexual act
- ร่วมเพศ (rûuam-pêet)take part in a sexual act
Turkish seks yapmak, sikişmek
- seks yapmaktake part in a sexual act
- sikişmektake part in a sexual act
Ukrainian займа́тися се́ксом, займа́тися коха́нням
- займа́тися се́ксом (zajmátysja séksom)take part in a sexual act
- займа́тися коха́нням (zajmátysja koxánnjam)take part in a sexual act
- зляга́тися (zljahátysja)take part in a sexual act
Urdu میتھن کرنا
- میتھن کرنا (maithun karnā)take part in a sexual act
Vietnamese giao cấu, làm tình
- giao cấutake part in a sexual act
- làm tìnhtake part in a sexual act
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have sex. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/have%20sex
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“have sex.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/have%20sex. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “have sex,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/have%20sex.
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