Nとは

意味・読み方・使い方

接続詞

’n

1. Nonstandard spelling of ’n’.

   fish 'n chips

   rock 'n roll

語源 2

Contraction of than.

接続詞

’n

1. Nonstandard form of than.
   • 1865, Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County:

     The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, "Well, I don’t see no p’ints about that frog that's any better’n any other frog."

   • 1969, Anne Warner, Susan Clegg and her friend Mrs. Lathrop (page 87)

     She says you may laugh ’f you feel so inclined, but there ain’t no such big difference between your leg ’n’ a dead rat but what it ’ll pay you to mark her words. She says ’f it don’t do no more ’n eat the skin off it ’ll still be pretty hard for you to lay there without no skin ’n’ feel the plaster goin’ in more ’n’ more.

   • 2010, Arnan Heyden, Daughters of Agendale (page 228)

     What I can give ya is this bit o’ knowledge: there be things in this world that no one can explain. There are things bigger ’n mountains, bigger ’n oceans, bigger ’n fields an’ night skies filled with stars, bigger ’n kings, or queens…

発音

• IPA^(key): /ən/, /n̩/

接続詞

'n'

1. (colloquial) Contraction of and; used mainly in a few set phrases.

派生語

• dead 'n' buried
• drill 'n' bass
• drum 'n' bass
• rock 'n' roll
• pick 'n' mix
• fish 'n' chips
• salt 'n' shake
• mac 'n' cheese
• pork 'n' beans
• drag 'n' drop
• rake 'n' scrape
• hook 'n' kill

接尾辞

-n

2. Alternative form of -an, adjective or noun suffix meaning "of or pertaining to", used with words which already end in a.

   ‎Java + ‎-n → ‎Javan

   ‎Burma + ‎-n → ‎Burman

   ‎Minnesota + ‎-n → ‎Minnesotan

   ‎Russia + ‎-n → ‎Russian

語源 3

From Middle English -n, -en, from 古期英語 -n, -en and Old Norse -inn, both from Proto-Germanic *-anaz, *-inaz, past participle ending of strong verbs. Cognate with Dutch -en, German -en, Swedish -en, Icelandic -inn.

接尾辞

-n

1. Alternative form of -en (過去分詞 ending)

   ‎grown + ‎-n → ‎grown

   ‎shown + ‎-n → ‎shown

   ‎slow + ‎-n → ‎slown

接合辞

-n-

1. Used with certain suffixes, such as -ian and -ese, when the base word ends in a vowel that is not readily elided.

   Panamanian, Torontonian

   Shanghainese, Balinese

2. (pharmacology) Alternative form of -ner-.

派生語

関連する語

• -n

Latin

語源

接中辞

-n-

1. 接中辞 used to denote an action (not lasting); becomes -m- in front of b, m, p

   ‎accubō (“I lie”) + ‎-n- → ‎accumbō (“I recline, lie down”)

2. 接中辞 used to denote a lasting action; becomes -m- in front of b, m, p

   ‎iugō (“I tie”) + ‎-n- → ‎iungō (“I tie for a long time”)

   ‎coniugō (“I tie firmly”) + ‎-n- → ‎coniungō (“I tie firmly for a long time”)

派生語

文字

n (lower case, upper case N, 複数形 ns または n's)

1. The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

参考

• (Latin-script letters) letter; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

数

n (lower case, upper case N)

1. The ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

別の表記

• n. (noun; neuter [gender]; north)
• N (north)

名詞

n

1. north
2. (grammar) noun
3. (grammar) neuter gender
4. (organic chemistry) normal
5. Neutral
6. No
7. Shortening of and, used in set phrases like rock-n-roll.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɛn/

接頭辞

n-

1. (organic chemistry) normal-form of a functional group (または molecule), being the long-chain form (unbranched chain)

等位語

• s- (secondary form)
• t- (tertiary form)

派生語

• n-butyl-

参考

• iso- (isomeric form)
• cyclo- (cyclic form)

使用する際の注意点

This is the customary abbreviation of "note"/"footnote" as used in legal citation. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Subdivisions", Table T16, p. 472-73.

形容詞

n. (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Abbreviation of neuter.
2. Abbreviation of northern.