I've

¹ American  

[ahyv] / aɪv /

1. contraction of I have.

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-ive ² American  

1. a suffix of adjectives (and nouns of adjectival origin) expressing tendency, disposition, function, connection, etc..

   active; corrective; destructive; detective; passive; sportive.

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-ive ¹ British  

suffix

1. (forming adjectives) indicating a tendency, inclination, character, or quality

   divisive

   prohibitive

   festive

   massive

2. ( forming nouns of adjectival origin )

   detective

   expletive

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I've ² British  

/ aɪv /

contraction

1. I have

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Usage

See contraction.

Etymology

Origin of -ive

< Latin -īvus; in some words, representing French -ive, feminine of -if

Example Sentences

"I've got a job and got to know more people over here and everybody's been so nice. I do like it."

From BBC

"I've always been interested in the medieval times, so going around the castles and landmarks is really cool," she added.

From BBC

I’ve also begun dictating all my emails, Slack messages and everything else using the built-in dictation features on my Lenovo Chromebook Plus.

From The Wall Street Journal

I’ve spent time talking through column ideas with ChatGPT and Gemini, then asked them to organize those thoughts in notes that I can revisit later.

From The Wall Street Journal

"This is the closest - in both proximity and in time - series of shark bites that I've ever seen in my 20 years of research," says Pepin-Neff, who is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Sydney.

From BBC