Tell you how much time you've got? (8)
I believe the answer is:
sentence
'tell' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'how much time you've got?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'time' could be 'ten' (I've seen this before) and 'ten' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'you' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sentence that I've seen before include "The fate of criminals" , "Judicial penalty" , "unit booked?" , "Court judgement" , "Court decision on a grammatical structure" .)