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y'ave

/jæv/

y'ave is the contraction of ye.

Meaning of ye

Pronoun

ye (personal pronoun)

  1. (Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland, personal, pronoun, archaic outside Northern England) You (the people being addressed).
    • My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 512
  2. (archaic, personal, pronoun) You (the singular person being addressed).
    • Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; [...]1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 23

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Questions about y'ave

What is y'ave the contraction of?
Y'ave is the contraction of ye.
How do you pronounce y'ave?
Y'ave is pronounced /jæv/.

Words near y'ave in the dictionary

  1. y'alls
  2. y'allself
  3. y'allselves
  4. y'allternative
  5. y'are
  6. y'ave
  7. y'awl
  8. y'day
  9. y'ere
  10. y'ever
  11. y'hear

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