"'ve" meaning in English

See 've in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /v/ (note: postvocalic), /əv/ (note: postconsonantal), /ə/ (note: postconsonantal) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-'ve.wav [US]
Etymology: Contraction of have. Etymology templates: {{contraction|en|have}} Contraction of have Head templates: {{head|en|verb|clitic|cat2=clitics}} 've (clitic)
  1. Have (in its sense marking the perfect or retrospective tense). Tags: clitic
    Sense id: en-'ve-en-verb-oNdhrgf5 Categories (other): English clitics, Pages with raw sortkeys Disambiguation of English clitics: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 49 51
  2. (dialect) Have (in its other uses). Tags: clitic, dialectal
    Sense id: en-'ve-en-verb-IsuNlVw8 Categories (other): English clitics, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English links with redundant wikilinks, English terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with raw sortkeys Disambiguation of English clitics: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 43 57 Disambiguation of English links with redundant wikilinks: 23 77 Disambiguation of English terms with redundant sortkeys: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 49 51
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: -a [slang] Related terms: 'd/’d, 'll, ’ll, 'm/’m, 're, ’re, 's/’s [third-person]

Alternative forms

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