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English edit
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Etymology edit
Written form of a reduction of want to, used informally in most English dialects.
Contraction edit
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- Eye dialect spelling of want to.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 163:
- “We don’t wanta. Come on aid us. It might be night time when de water hem you up in heah. Dat’s how come Ah won’t stay. Come on, man.”
See also edit
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Noun edit
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Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Want, from Middle Dutch want, gewant, from Old Dutch *giwant, from Proto-Germanic *gawandą.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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Declension edit
Declension of wanta
Derived terms edit
adjective
noun
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