hasn't

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English

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Etymology

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has +‎ -n't

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhæzn̩t/
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Verb

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hasn't

  1. Has not: negative form of the auxiliary has[1]
  2. (archaic, dialectal, literary) Has not/does not have: negative form of the lexical has
    • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
      “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke [] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”

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References

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  1. ^ Arnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n’t, Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513

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