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One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Henrik Ibsen

Meaning of "striven" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STRIVEN

striven  [ˈstrɪvən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRIVEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Striven is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb striven in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO STRIVEN

PRESENT

Present
I strive
you strive
he/she/it strives
we strive
you strive
they strive
Present continuous
I am striving
you are striving
he/she/it is striving
we are striving
you are striving
they are striving
Present perfect
I have striven
you have striven
he/she/it has striven
we have striven
you have striven
they have striven
Present perfect continuous
I have been striving
you have been striving
he/she/it has been striving
we have been striving
you have been striving
they have been striving
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I strove
you strove
he/she/it strove
we strove
you strove
they strove
Past continuous
I was striving
you were striving
he/she/it was striving
we were striving
you were striving
they were striving
Past perfect
I had striven
you had striven
he/she/it had striven
we had striven
you had striven
they had striven
Past perfect continuous
I had been striving
you had been striving
he/she/it had been striving
we had been striving
you had been striving
they had been striving
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will strive
you will strive
he/she/it will strive
we will strive
you will strive
they will strive
Future continuous
I will be striving
you will be striving
he/she/it will be striving
we will be striving
you will be striving
they will be striving
Future perfect
I will have striven
you will have striven
he/she/it will have striven
we will have striven
you will have striven
they will have striven
Future perfect continuous
I will have been striving
you will have been striving
he/she/it will have been striving
we will have been striving
you will have been striving
they will have been striving
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would striven
you would striven
he/she/it would striven
we would striven
you would striven
they would striven
Conditional continuous
I would be striving
you would be striving
he/she/it would be striving
we would be striving
you would be striving
they would be striving
Conditional perfect
I would have striven
you would have striven
he/she/it would have striven
we would have striven
you would have striven
they would have striven
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been striving
you would have been striving
he/she/it would have been striving
we would have been striving
you would have been striving
they would have been striving
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you strive
we let´s strive
you strive
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to strive
Past participle
striven
Present Participle
striving
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STRIVEN


Avon
ˈeɪvən
battery-driven
ˈbætərɪˌdrɪvən
driven
ˈdrɪvən
enriven
ɛnˈrɪvən
given
ˈɡɪvən
haven
ˈheɪvən
market-driven
ˌmɑːkɪtˈdrɪvən
maven
ˈmeɪvən
motor-driven
ˈməʊtəˌdrɪvən
petrol-driven
ˈpɛtrəlˌdrɪvən
power-driven
ˈpaʊəˌdrɪvən
raven
ˈreɪvən
riven
ˈrɪvən
steam-driven
ˈstiːmdrɪvən
Sullivan
ˈsʌlɪvən
test-driven
ˈtestdrɪvən
thriven
ˈθrɪvən
undriven
ʌnˈdrɪvən
unriven
ʌnˈrɪvən
wanthriven
ˈwɒnˌθrɪvən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRIVEN

stripeless
striper
stripier
stripiest
stripiness
stripling
strippable
strippagram
stripped
stripped pine
stripped-down
stripper
stripping
striptease
stripteaser
stripy
strive
striver
striving
strivingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRIVEN

enliven
forgiven
liven
menu-driven
misgiven
Niven
order-driven
outstriven
overdriven
quote-driven
shriven
unforgiven
unshriven

Synonyms and antonyms of striven in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STRIVEN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «striven» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of striven

Translation of «striven» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STRIVEN

Find out the translation of striven to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of striven from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «striven» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

努力
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

esforzado
570 millions of speakers

English

striven
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कड़ी मेहनत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سعت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стремились
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esforçado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লড়েছিলেন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

efforcés
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bersungguh-sungguh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

angestrebt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

努め
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노력해
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Striven
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phấn đấu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பெற முயற்சித்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एकत्रितपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çabalamaktadır
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sforzati
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

starała
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прагнули
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

străduit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προσπάθησε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

daarna gestreef
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

strävat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

strevet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of striven

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about striven

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8 QUOTES WITH «STRIVEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word striven.
1
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
2
Theodore Bikel
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
3
Theodore Bikel
No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.
4
Theodore Bikel
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
5
Jarvis Cocker
I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.
6
Henrik Ibsen
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
7
William Osler
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
8
Baruch Spinoza
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRIVEN»

Discover the use of striven in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to striven and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Barron's 1001 Pitfalls in English Grammar
(intransitive verb) Infinitive: to strive Perfect Infinitive: to have striven Present Participle: striving Past Participle: striven Infinitive: to swear Perfect Infinitive: to have sworn Present Participle: 329 tO Strive (active VOice Only) Principal Parts: strive, ...
Vincent F. Hopper, 1986
2
English Irregular Verbs: Master 250 irregular verbs in English
Mode Indicative Tense Simple Present Present Perfect Simple Past Past Perfect I strive have striven strove had striven you strive have striven strove had striven he/ she/it strives has striven strove had striven we strive have striven strove had ...
TZ-one, 2013
3
Striven, the Bright Treatise
"--Rusty Morrison"Sleeplessness and boundless sleep. These two poles constrain Jeffrey Pethybridge's STRIVEN, THE BRIGHT TREATISE. Rather, these are two obvious limits within which the book is made.
Jeffrey Pethybridge, 2013
4
Plato and Heidegger: A Question of Dialogue
seeks is not the possession [Besitz] of what is striven after, but rather that what is striven after remain [bleibe] something striven-after [ein Be-strebtes], something held in striving [im Streben Gehaltenes], so that he who strives [der Strebende] ...
Francisco J. Gonzalez, 2009
5
Wesker's Domestic Plays
HILARY: He heard this terrible howling. THE STRIVEN'S CELLAR STRIVEN's wife, half—naked, in chains. Beaten. She's howling. HILARY: Striven was at his scrap yard. Scott found a window ajar, got in that way. SCOTT confronts the chained ...
Arnold Wesker, 2012
6
Moral Values
would be attainable, while the former would also be capable generally of being striven for. The implicit presupposition in this is that attainment by striving is the same as attainment in general, that the latter is conditioned by striving, but that ...
Hartmann, Nicolai
7
Ethics
Would be attainable, while the former would also be capable generally of being striven for. ' The implicit presupposition in this is that attainment by striving is the same as attainment in general, that the latter is conditioned by striving, but that ...
Hartmann, Nicolai, 2014
8
Scottish Canoe Classics: Twenty Five Great Canoe and Kayak Trips
Loch. Ruel. to. Loch. Striven. ®: OS Sheet 63 Loch Ruel, Kyles of Bute & Loch Striven 25km Shuttle 7km via A886 and B836, 1 0 minutes. Start A Near to Ardachuple Farm, Loch Ruel (012 793). Finish O Craigendive on Loch Striven ( 051 836).
Eddie Palmer, 2007
9
Preaching Christ from Genesis: Foundations for Expository ...
Verse 28, “Then the man said, 'You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed.'” The man changes Jacob's name from Jacob, deceiver, to Israel. And he gives this reason for ...
Sidney Greidanus, 2007
10
Formalism in Ethics and Non-formal Ethics of Values: A New ...
Having rejected these errors, we return to the question of how values are given in conation. In no case is the givenness of a value dependent upon conation, either in the sense that a positive value is identical with "to be striven for" and a ...
Max Scheler, Manfred S. Frings, Roger L. Funk, 1973

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRIVEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term striven is used in the context of the following news items.
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Israel's High Court lets specialty schools charge hefty fees
Equality is a worthy goal best striven for gradually, the judges say. Parents sometimes pay around $3,000 annually — or more. By Yarden Skop | Jul. 19, 2015 ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
2
102nd annual Ramsey County Fair — a longstanding tradition
The Ramsey County Fair — celebrating its 102nd year — has had its changes, but also realizes the value of traditions and has striven to keep as many traditions ... «Lillie News, Jul 15»
3
8 Iconic Photos From The Invasion Of Normandy 71 Years Ago
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and ... «Task & Purpose, Jun 15»
4
King of Spain cuts his own salary in austerity drive
... in 2015 at 7.8 million euros. Felipe has striven to improve the monarchy's image, which has been tarnished by a number of scandals in recent years ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
5
'Striven' Rocks Blackthorne
Photos Annette Hanze AlbertsOn October 31, Blackthorn 51 in Elmhurst had an all-night heavy metal party, “Hallowscream”, featuring KISS It, Kore Rozzik, ... «Western Queens Gazette, Nov 14»
6
Corfu ferry to aid timber deliveries
The private sites are all in Argyll - at Loch Feachan, Ardoran (south of Oban), Loch Goil, Carrick and sites at Loch Striven on the Cowal peninsula. The STTS is ... «Herald Scotland, Nov 14»
7
If a Company Won't Talk, Its Former Employees Will
The Haggler has striven in recent months to get someone at Conn's, a Texas-based chain that sells appliances and furniture, on the phone. But as regular ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
8
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Replenishment Tanker On Five-Day Courtesy …
The 140m (461ft) long RFA Gold Rover sailed from Loch Striven Oil Fuel Depot on the Scottish west coast and understood to be under the command of ... «Afloat, Aug 14»
9
Peter Gabriel to win Prog God Award
''From a groundbreaking eight years with Genesis to a solo career that has now stretched almost 40 years, few artists have striven to push back the creative ... «TV3.ie, Aug 14»
10
Abuse inquiry: Baroness Butler-Sloss criticism rejected
Baroness Butler-Sloss said: "Throughout many years of public service I have always striven to be fair and compassionate, mindful of the very real suffering of ... «BBC News, Jul 14»

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