Misgive

'To misgive'' is essentially archaic. You are not advised to use it. When it is used, it is usually in phrases such as "My heart misgives me", to mean 'I am losing courage', or 'I have no determination in this matter'. Rather more commonly, in present-day English, such verbal uses have been replaced by the noun, as in "I have misgivins about it." Nevertheless, AWE will give the inflections of the obsolete verb here.

'To misgive' is an irregular verb. Its forms are given here:

Base form	past tense	-ed participle	Remarks
misgive	misgave	misgiven	See also give

This is one of the "the 250 or so irregular verbs" listed in Quirk 1985. The list "contains most of the irregular verbs in present-day English ... but is not meant to be exhaustive, particularly with regard to derivative verbs." AWE has copied most of the entries in that list. The verb 'to misgive' belongs to Quirk's Class 4 B c.