Let'sとは

頭文字

LETS

1. Local Exchange Trading System.

アナグラム

• ELTs
• lest
• TESL

語源

Contraction of let us. Compare Dutch laat ons, German lass uns, Swedish låt oss.

発音

• IPA^(key): /lɛts/

動詞

let's

1. Used to form the hortative of verbs, equivalent of the first-person plural imperative in some other languages.

   Let’s eat lunch sometime.

   Let’s dance.

使用する際の注意点

Let’s is always inclusive, which refers to both the speaker and the addressee(s), while let us is commonly exclusive, referring to the speaker and others but not the addressee(s).

• Let’s go, we are late. - inclusive we
• Release us and let us go! - exclusive we

Negation of let's is let's not in standard English.

• Let’s not talk about it.

Don't is also used, but it is often considered non-standard.

• Let’s don’t talk about it. (米国用法)
• Don’t let’s talk about it. (英国用法)

Tag questions with let's typically take shall we?.

• Let's go to the beach, shall we?

派生語

参照

• let, don’t let’s, let’s, let’s don’t, let’s not, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, Kenneth G. Wilson, 1993.
• American English and British English, Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language, Tom McArthur, 1998.

アナグラム

• ELTs, LTEs, TESL, elts, lest, tels