"to've" meaning in All languages combined

See to've on Wiktionary

Contraction [English]

IPA: /tuː.əv/
Etymology: to + 've Etymology templates: {{compound|en|to|'ve}} to + 've Head templates: {{head|en|contraction|head=}} to've, {{en-cont}} to've
  1. to have (with to as infinitive) Tags: contraction
    Sense id: en-to've-en-contraction-URWzSK~Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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      },
      "expansion": "to + 've",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "to + 've",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction",
        "head": ""
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "to've",
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"Lord, Paul! you ought to've sent an 'ailstone into that little black 'un.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Samuel H. Hammond, Wild northern scenes, page 166:",
          "text": "I've met with some queer adventures, as you call them, in these woods too; some that I wouldn't have gone out arter if I'd known what they were to 've been afore I started.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Jane Stevenson, Good women: three novellas, page 25:",
          "text": "The fireplace is supposed to've been there since about 1900, so in an ideal world, we'd have old-white panelling and a dado.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Arlen Blumhagen, Mount: A Mountain Man's Adventures:",
          "text": "That damned thing had to've been fifteen hundred feet long by five hundred feet wide and over a hundred feet tall.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "to have (with to as infinitive)"
      ],
      "id": "en-to've-en-contraction-URWzSK~Y",
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        [
          "to",
          "to"
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        [
          "have",
          "have"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "contraction"
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tuː.əv/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "to've"
}
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "to",
        "3": "'ve"
      },
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      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "to + 've",
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction",
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      },
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
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        "English contractions",
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        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"Lord, Paul! you ought to've sent an 'ailstone into that little black 'un.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1857, Samuel H. Hammond, Wild northern scenes, page 166:",
          "text": "I've met with some queer adventures, as you call them, in these woods too; some that I wouldn't have gone out arter if I'd known what they were to 've been afore I started.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Jane Stevenson, Good women: three novellas, page 25:",
          "text": "The fireplace is supposed to've been there since about 1900, so in an ideal world, we'd have old-white panelling and a dado.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Arlen Blumhagen, Mount: A Mountain Man's Adventures:",
          "text": "That damned thing had to've been fifteen hundred feet long by five hundred feet wide and over a hundred feet tall.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "to have (with to as infinitive)"
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    {
      "ipa": "/tuː.əv/"
    }
  ],
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