how to pronounce gave

/ˈɡɛɪv/

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gave is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of gave in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… and sure enough he gave me the aha …”

meanings of gave

verb:

Past participle of give.
Simple past tense of give.

gave frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word gave occurs in english on average 207.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics gave can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that gave can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;