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English
Contraction
he've
- (dialect) he have.
1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:"He's not at home, and won't be this side of eleven o'clock. He've been forced to go over to Yalbury since shutting out work. I shall do quite as well."
Usage notes
- Generally used in rendering dialectal speech, though possibly also applicable to the subjunctive case.
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