How do you pronounce to've?

The recorded pronunciation is /tuː.əv/.

to've

/tuː.əv/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English

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to have (with to as infinitive)

"Nine o'clock. He ought to've arrived by now."
""Lord, Paul! you ought to've sent an 'ailstone into that little black 'un.""
"I've met with some queer adventures, as you call them, in these woods too; some that I wouldn't have gone out arter if I'd known what they were to 've been afore I started."
"The fireplace is supposed to've been there since about 1900, so in an ideal world, we'd have old-white panelling and a dado."
"That damned thing had to've been fifteen hundred feet long by five hundred feet wide and over a hundred feet tall."

to + 've

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