Description:

Happat is primarily a verb. It is the paradigm verb for the ditransitive verbs, verbs of giving, throwing, etc.

Noun:

In a general sense, happat is usually used to mean a thing that is given, a gift, a present, a donation, etc.

Verb:

Happat is the paradigm verb of the ditransitive verbs, and as such can be used as a stand-in for these verbs should the speaker wish to omit them. It takes the verbal auxilliary 'hap', to which it is obviously supposed to be related. It means to give, and can also have senses like donate and transfer.

There is generally an implicit expectation that the recipient is animate and generally can benefit from the gift or at least is impacted in some way by it. However, this expectation is weaker than in English and idioms like 'give the apple to the basket' to mean 'put the apple in the basket' are more common and acceptable in Common than in English. An inanimate recipient can be used to give a general lative (locational) sense without specifying anything about the spacial orientation (which would tend to require a different verb altogether).