we've
SayWEEV/wiv/UK/wiːv/
- 1Contraction of we have.
We've lived in this neighborhood since long before the new highway was built.
We've decided to repaint the kitchen over the weekend.
Note
A contraction built on the perfect: the 've almost always carries have as an auxiliary before a past participle, as in we've lived or we've decided. The pronoun inside keeps every range it has on its own (exclusive or inclusive, the editorial we of a publication, even the royal we), so a monarch's we've is as grammatical as a family's. Possessive have, as in we've a car, now reads as dated or regional.
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