dinnit
English edit
Verb edit
dinnit
- Pronunciation spelling of didn't.
- 1988 February 12, Josh Karlen, “Home Is Where the Heat Is”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- "An' I dinnit even do it for money.
Afar edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Amharic ድንች (dənnəčč).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dinnít m
Declension edit
| Declension of dinnít | ||||||||||||||||||
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| absolutive | dinnít | |||||||||||||||||
| predicative | dinníti | |||||||||||||||||
| subjective | dinnít | |||||||||||||||||
| genitive | dinnít | |||||||||||||||||
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See also edit
- bataatá (“potato”)
References edit
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “dinnit”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN