英和和英

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈwʊdə/
• 韻: -ʊdə

短縮形

woulda

1. (colloquial) Contraction of would +‎ have.

   You woulda told him the truth.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, →ISBN, page 396:

     Otherwise I just woulda dunked you instead a bringing you here to my spread.

   • 2014, Molly Smith Metzler, Elemeno Pea, →ISBN, page 49:

     ETHAN: Why didn't you call me, silly? I woulda come for ya.

使用する際の注意点

Like other similarly formed contractions, speakers only use woulda to replace the modal sense of would have, i.e. where have precedes a past participle: We woulda come if you'd called. They do not use it to replace would followed by the verb have used lexically, e.g. *We woulda a reason. (We would have a reason would be contracted to We'd have a reason instead.) See also gonna.

派生語

• woulda, coulda, shoulda

参考

Category:English contractions