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what've

what've contraction: what have.

Contraction

what've

  1. (colloquial, contraction) what have.
    • What've you been up to?

Questions about what've

What does what've mean?
What've means what have.
What part of speech is what've?
What've is a contraction.

Words near what've in the dictionary

  1. what'sisnames
  2. what'stheirface
  3. what'stheirfaces
  4. what'stheirname
  5. what'stheirnames
  6. what've
  7. what, me worry
  8. what-d'ye-call-'em
  9. what-d'ye-call-'ems
  10. what-d'ye-call-it
  11. what-d'ye-call-its

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