aren't
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See also: arent
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑːnt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹ(ə)nt/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nt
- Homophone: aunt (some non-rhotic dialects)
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
aren't
Synonyms edit
- ain’t (slang)
Antonyms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Spelling replacement of the homonym an’t.
Verb edit
aren't
- (colloquial) A contraction of “am not”, used e.g. in the construction "aren’t I?"
- 1904, George Manville Fenn, To Win Or To Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze:
- I’m a nasty-tempered dog if any one tries to take my bone away; aren’t I, my sons?
- 2008 July 1, “Falling in Love”, in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ricky Underwood (Daren Kagasoff):
- Aren’t I supposed to tell you how I feel?
- 2010 October 26, “Why Aren’t I Home?”, in Athletics (music), Why Aren’t I Home?[1]:
Usage notes edit
- Aren’t as a contraction of “am not” is used most often in the question aren’t I? (= am I not?). In the non-interrogative form, the standard contraction of “I am not” is “I’m not”.
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References edit
- ^ Arnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n’t, Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513