let'sとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Contraction of let us. Compare non-contracted Dutch laat ons, German lass uns (speaker with one other person) / lasst uns (speaker with more other persons) and Swedish låt oss.

発音

• IPA^(key): /lɛts/
• 韻: -ɛts

動詞

let’s

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

   Let’s eat lunch sometime.

   I say let’s dance.

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     Let’s get coffee!

2. Used to form the hortative of verbs, equivalent of the second-person plural imperative in some other languages, chiefly instructional

   Let’s make sure we don’t forget proper punctuation.

   Hey guys, let’s check to make sure that we proofread.

   Y’all, let’s stop talking please, y’all are driving me up the wall!

使用する際の注意点

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

• American English and British English, Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language, Tom McArthur, 1998.

アナグラム

• ELTs, LTEs, SELT, TESL, elts, lest, tels

名詞

lets

1. plural of let

動詞

lets

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of let
2. Misspelling of let's.

アナグラム

• ELTs, LTEs, SELT, TESL, elts, lest, tels