n'tとは 意味・読み方・使い方

短縮形

n't

1. (dated or colloquial) not
   • 1845 March, “Editor’s Table”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XXV, New York, N.Y.: […] John Allen, […], page 267, columns 1–2:

     Do n’t tell me you ‘have n’t got time,’ / That other things claim your attention; / There ’s not the least reason or rhyme / In the wisest excuse you can mention: / Do n’t tell me about ‘other fish,’ / Your duty is done when you buy ’em; / And you never will relish the dish, / Unless you ’ve a woman to ‘fry ’em.’

   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Noah and Moses”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], OCLC 84390265, page 196:

     Will n't ye gie us a bit o' time ?—Will n't ye consent to mak' your changes rather more slowly?

   • 1913 August, Jack London, chapter XIX, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 264225, page 186:

     The only reply is that we did n't. That is the irrefragable fact. We did n't.

派生語

語源

Contraction of not. Compare n't.

発音

• IPA^(key): /(ə)nt/

接尾辞

-n't

1. Negates the meaning of the clause in which it occurs.

使用する際の注意点

• This contraction does not receive stress, even for contrast: either you DID or you DIDn't.
• The suffix -n’t can only be added to auxiliary verbs, including dare and need in certain uses (see daredn't), as well as main verbs be (in almost all uses) and have (in some uses). Indeed, in some dialects, not even all auxiliary verbs accept -n’t; for example, mayn’t is present in some dialects and absent in others.
• Some verbs change their form when -n’t is added; for example, shall + -n’t is usually shan’t, and am + -n’t is frequently aren’t or ain’t (though all three of these are dialect-dependent).
• Though verbs with -n’t are usually considered contractions of versions using the adverb not, grammatically they behave a bit differently. For example, when subject and verb are inverted, -n’t remains attached to the verb, whereas not does not:

  Isn’t that difficult?

  Is that not difficult?

• Semantically, -n’t may have either “high attachment” or “low attachment”, depending primarily on the verb. For example, “I can’t leave” means “It is not the case that I can leave” (usually “I am unable to leave”), whereas “I shouldn’t leave” means basically “I should stay” (which is a narrower statement, かつ therefore a stronger one, than “It is not the case that I should leave”). (“I can stay”, by contrast, is very different from “I can’t leave.”) Similar variation is seen with the adverb not, as well as various other negative constructions.

派生語

アナグラム

• TN, Tn, tn

頭文字

N.T.

1. (Christianity) New Testament
2. (bridge) no trump

参考

• no trump on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• TN