-ive


-ive

suff. Performing or tending toward a specified action: demonstrative.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -īvus, adj. suff.]

-ive

suffix 1. (forming adjectives) indicating a tendency, inclination, character, or quality: divisive; prohibitive; festive; massive. 2. (forming nouns of adjectival origin): detective; expletive. [from Latin -īvus]

I've

(aɪv) contraction of I have.

-ive

a suffix of adjectives (and nouns of adjectival origin) expressing tendency, disposition, function, connection, etc.: active; corrective; detective; sportive. [< Latin -īvus; in some words, representing French -ive, feminine of -if]