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aren't en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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/ɑɹ(ə)nt/ (General-American)
/ɑːnt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *arun? Old English earon Middle English aren English are English n’t English aren't From are + n’t.

Meanings

are not (negative auxiliary)

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aren't en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

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/ɑɹ(ə)nt/ (General-American)
/ɑːnt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Spelling replacement of the homonym an’t.

Meanings

(colloquial) A contraction of “am not”, used e.g. in the construction "aren’t I?"
- I’m a nasty-tempered dog if any one tries to take my bone away; aren’t I, my sons? 1904, George Manville Fenn, To Win Or To Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze:
- Aren’t I supposed to tell you how I feel? 2008 July 1, “Falling in Love”, in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ricky Underwood (Daren Kagasoff):

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