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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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are +‎-n’t

Verb

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aren't

  1. arenot (negative auxiliary[1])
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Etymology 2

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Spelling replacement of the homonyman’t.

Verb

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aren't

  1. (colloquial)A contraction of “am not”, used e.g. in the construction "aren’t I?"
    • 1904, George Manville Fenn,To Win Or To Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze:
      I’m a nasty-tempered dog if any one tries to take my bone away;aren’t I, my sons?
    • 2008 July 1, “Falling in Love”, inThe Secret Life of the American Teenager, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ricky Underwood (Daren Kagasoff):
      Aren’t I supposed to tell you how I feel?
    • 2010 October 26, “WhyAren’t I Home?”, in Athletics (music),WhyAren’t I Home?[1]:
Usage notes
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  • Aren’t as a contraction of “am not” is used most often in the questionaren’t I? (=am I not?). In the non-interrogative form, the standard contraction of “I am not” is “I’m not”.
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References

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  1. ^Arnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum,Cliticization vs. Inflection: Englishn’t,Language59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513

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