cantとは意味・読み方・使い方

アナグラム

• NCTA

別の表記

• ca'n't (廃れた用法)

発音

• (General Australian) enPR: känt, IPA^(key): /kaːnt/, [kʰä̃ːnt]
  • (Indian English) IPA^(key): /kaːɳʈ/
  • (Received 発音, some 米国発音 speakers) enPR: känt, IPA^(key): /kɑːnt/, [kʰɑ̃ːnt]
    • 韻: -ɑːnt
  • (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) enPR: känt
  • (most 米国発音 speakers, Canada, some Irish speakers) enPR: kănt, IPA^(key): /kænt/, [kæn(ʔ)]
    • (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [kʰẽə̃nt], IPA^(key): [kʰɪ̃ə̃nt]
    • 韻: -ænt
  • (Southern American English) IPA^(key): [kʰẽɪ̃nt]
    • 韻: -eɪnt
  • 異形同音異義語: cant, Kant (in some dialects)

動詞

can't

1. Cannot (negative auxiliary^[3]); is unable to; does not have the ability to.

   Antonyms: be able to, can

   I can’t quite get it to work.

   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 962368035, PC, scene: Tuchanka:

     Shepard: Mordin, walk away.
     Mordin: Can't do that, Shepard.
     Shepard: I don't have a choice here. Walk away, or I will fire.

2. Is forbidden to; is not permitted to.

   Antonyms: be able to, can, have to, must

   You can’t enter the hall without a ticket.

3. Often followed by be: is logically impossible.

   Antonyms: be able to, can, have to, must

   The butler can’t be the murderer because he was in London that evening.

   • 1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, the Yeoman's, the Farmer's, &c. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and Other Parts of England: Shewing how Great Savings may be Made in Housekeeping: [...] With Variety of Curious Matters [...] The Whole Founded on Near Thirty Years Experience, London: Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-glass, facing St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge; and B. Collins, bookseller, at Salisbury, OCLC 837728611, page 157:

     To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]

使用する際の注意点

• Some US dialects that glottalize the final /t/ in can’t (/kæn(ʔ)/), in order to differentiate can’t from can, pronounce can as /kɛn/ even when stressed.

派生語

• you can't say fairer than that

参考

• Appendix:English modal verbs
• Appendix:English tag questions

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