'n

See also: Appendix:Variations of "n"

Translingual

ʼn U+0149, ʼn
LATIN SMALL LETTER N PRECEDED BY APOSTROPHE
ň
[U+0148]
Latin Extended-A Ŋ
[U+014A]

English

Etymology 1

Contraction of and.

Conjunction

’n

  1. Nonstandard spelling of ’n’.
    fish 'n chips
    rock 'n roll

Etymology 2

Contraction of than.

Conjunction

’n

  1. Eye dialect spelling of than.
    • 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 (page 87)
      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.
    • 2010, Arnan Heyden, Daughters of Agendale (page 228)
      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…

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch een, 'n.

Pronunciation

Article

ʼn (indefinite)

  1. a (indefinite article), any indefinite example of.

Usage notes

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

Catalan

Pronoun

’n

  1. Contraction of ne.

Declension


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ən/
  • (file)

Article

’n

  1. Contraction of een.

German

Alternative forms

  • n (non-standard)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n/, /ən/

Etymology 1

Contraction of ein. 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 chiefly Low German origin. Most High 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.

Article

’n

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of ein (a, an)
  2. (colloquial) Alternative form of einen (a, an)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Contraction of denn.

Adverb

’n

  1. (colloquial) short for denn (used for general emphasis)
    Wann wärst’n hier?
    So, when would you be here?

Ligurian

Etymology

Apheresis of un (a, an, article).

Pronunciation

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

Article

'n m (feminine 'na, 'n')

  1. a, an (male)

Low German

Article

’n

  1. Contraction of den.

Pronoun

’n

  1. Contraction of en.

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n/

Particle

’n

  1. Alternative form of yn (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.

Etymology 2

Contraction of ein (our).

Determiner

'n

  1. our (used after vowels).

Zealandic

Etymology

An unstressed variety of eên.

Determiner

'n

  1. a (indefinite article)
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