• IPA^(key):/n/,[n̩]

Contraction ofand.

'n

1. Nonstandard spelling of'n'.

   fish'n chips

   rock'n roll

   • 1927,Arthur D[ouglas] Howden Smith, “The Ferryman”, inCommodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement, New York, N.Y.:Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, section III,pages50–51:

     “Might think we was brother'n sister, to hear ye, Ma! Damn me to glory, don't ye know thar's fust cousins marryin' every week? And no harm come of it.”[…] “Oh, son, not in the face of Pa'n me that love you, whatever you think! We're only tryin' to figger for your own good.”

'n

1. Contraction ofthan.
   • 1865, Mark Twain,The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County:

     The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, "Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."

   • 1969, Anne Warner,Susan Clegg and her friend Mrs. Lathrop, page87:

     She says you may laugh 'f you feel so inclined, but there ain't no such big difference between your leg 'n' a dead rat but what it 'll pay you to mark her words. She says 'f it don't do no more'n eat the skin off it 'll still be pretty hard for you to lay there without no skin 'n' feel the plaster goin' in more 'n' more.

   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America,Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:

     lock this room up tighter'n a peanut butter jar at a squirrel convention

   • 2010, Arnan Heyden,Daughters of Agendale, page228:

     What I can give ya is this bit o' knowledge: there be things in this world that no one can explain. There are things bigger'n mountains, bigger 'n oceans, bigger 'n fields an' night skies filled with stars, bigger 'n kings, or queens…

'n

1. (archaic)Contraction ofwhen. (As found inif'n.)

'n (plural'ns)

1. (colloquial)Alternative form of'un(“one, a thing”)
   • 2009, Mariella Glenn Hartsfield,Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby: South Georgia Folktales, page104:

     The other said, "Alright, I'm gonna do it like this: you take this'n, I'll take that'n; you take this'n, I'll take that'n;[…]

   • 2012, Liza Cody,Musclebound, page15:

     Which really did turn into a headache when I woke up — a bad'n.

FromDutcheen, 'n.

• IPA^(key):/ə/

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'n (indefinite)

1. (indefinite article)a,an

• This word is not capitalized at the beginning of a sentence and the following word is capitalized instead.

'n

1. (obsolete)Contraction ofen.

   Toi viviendo'n Cangues

   I'm livingin Cangues

While this contraction still reflects the elision that often occurs inen when it is between a word ending in a vowel and a word beginning in a consonant, this spelling was dropped by the Academy of the Asturian Language in 1990. Thus, the normative spelling of the above example is nowToi viviendoen Cangues.

• n'
• 'l

Merged unstressed form ofan anden orden.

'n m

1. a(accusative)
2. the(accusative)

Unstressed form ofeam.

'n

1. him
2. it(dative)

'n

1. Contraction ofne.

• 'n is the reduced (reduïda) form of the pronoun. It is used after verbs ending with avowel.

• IPA^(key):/ən/

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'n

1. Contraction ofeen.

If'n begins a sentence, the first letter of the following word is capitalised instead.

'n

1. Clipping ofun

• n(nonstandard)

• IPA^(key):/n/,/ən/
• IPA^(key):/m/(often before a labial),/ŋ/(often before a velar)

Contraction ofein. Like virtually all traditional German dialects, colloquial standard German distinguishes the indefinite article from the numeral for "one". The specific form'n has spread from the North southward and is thus of chieflyLow German origin. MostHigh German dialects use forms without the final-n, such as[ə] or[a], at least for the basic form (i.e. the masculine and neuter nominative). These pronunciations are sometimes heard in colloquial standard German as well, but'n is clearly the commonest form.

'n

1. (colloquial)Alternative form ofein(“a, an”)
2. (colloquial)Alternative form ofeinen(“a, an”)

• 'nem
• 'nen
• 'ne
• 'ner

• so'n

Contraction ofdenn.

'n

1. (colloquial) short fordenn (used for general emphasis)

   Wann wärst'n hier?

   So, when would you be here?

'n

1. (literary)Alternative form ofin
2. (colloquial)Pronunciation spelling ofin.

'n m

1. (colloquial)Pronunciation spelling ofun.

'n m

1. (colloquial)Pronunciation spelling ofun.

'n

1. (colloquial)Pronunciation spelling ofnon.

Apheresis ofun(“a, an”,article).

• IPA^(key):/ŋ/(when followed by a consonant)
• IPA^(key):/n/(when followed by a vowel)

'n m (feminine'na,'n')

1. a,an(male)

'n

1. Contraction ofden.

'n

1. Contraction ofen.

'n

1. (Föhr-Amrum,Mooring)Reduced form ofham(“him”)
2. (Sylt)Reduced form ofhöm(“him”)

Apheresis ofin, fromLatinin.

• IPA^(key):/ŋ/(when followed by a consonant)
• IPA^(key):/n/(when followed by a vowel)

'n

1. in

• IPA^(key):/n/

'n

1. Alternative form ofyn(used after a vowel).

   Mae hi'n darllen. ―She is reading.

   Mae hi'n gysglyd. ―She is sleepy.

   Mae hi'n ferch. ―She is a girl.

Contraction ofein(“our”).

'n (triggersh-prothesis of a following vowel)

1. our(used after vowels).

   Dyna'n harian ni.

   That'sour money.

'n (triggersh-prothesis of a following vowel)

1. us(as the direct object of a verbal noun or verb)

   Mae e yma i'n harfarnu.

   He's here to appraiseus.

   Fe'n magwyd yng ngefn gwlad.

   We were brought up (lit. One broughtus up) in the countryside.

• In formal Welsh, the contraction'n is a valid form ofein found after mostly functional vowel-final words. In colloquial Welsh,ein is often contracted to'n after almost any vowel-final word.
• Pronomial'n (andein) can occur before any verbal noun. Before verbal, pronomial'n is found only in formal language after certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such asfe,a,ni,na,oni andpe.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “'n”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

An unstressed variety ofeên.

'n

1. a (indefinite article)