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Since we’re native speakers of English, it’s not so important to have English contractions (although we should). Those of us who do not know much French, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian might actually wish to find out what some of these very common words mean. —Stephen06:24, 17 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Isn't j'ai pretty much a match for I've? We wouldn't get rid of that one, I'm sure. Of course, the difference is that you could write "I have" instead of I've, but you can't write "je ai" instead of j'ai, as it would be incorrect. bd2412T15:53, 17 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Keep. Very common. And anyway, a contracted word is still a single word and so we should have an entry for it. The definition only has to say "contraction of je + ai", I don't see the problem. Widsith11:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Keep, in case my comment above does not clearly convey my direction. I would agree with deleted, for example, j'attends or j'apparais, even though they are correct, because they are just not as fundamental to the language; but avoir is one of the two basic combining forms for creating compound tenses, and j'ai is therefore exceedingly common in French speech. bd2412T03:48, 22 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
