'nとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Contraction of and.

接続詞

'n

1. Nonstandard spelling of 'n'.

   fish 'n chips

   rock 'n roll

   • 1927, Arthur D[ouglas] Howden Smith, “The Ferryman”, in Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, section III, pages 50–51:

     “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.”

語源 2

接続詞

'n

1. Contraction 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.

   • 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, 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…

語源 3

接続詞

'n

1. (archaic) Contraction of when, as found in if'n.

語源 4

名詞

'n (plural 'ns)

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of 'un (“one, a thing”).
   • 2009, Mariella Glenn Hartsfield, Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby: South Georgia Folktales, page 104:

     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, page 15:

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

発音

• IPA: /ən/, [ən], [n̩]

接続詞

’n’

1. (colloquial) Contraction of and; used mainly in a few set phrases such as rock 'n' roll.

派生語

接合辞

-n-

1. Used with certain suffixes, such as -ian and -ese, when the base word ends in a vowel that is not readily elided.

   Panamanian, Torontonian

   Shanghainese, Balinese

2. (pharmacology) Alternative form of -ner-.

派生語

関連する語

• -n

接中辞

-n-

1. Infix used to denote an action (not lasting); becomes -m- in front of b, m, p

   ‎accubō (“to lie”) + ‎-n- → ‎accumbō (“to recline, lie down”)

2. Infix used to denote a lasting action; becomes -m- in front of b, m, p

   ‎iugō (“to tie”) + ‎-n- → ‎iungō (“to tie for a long time”)

   ‎coniugō (“to tie firmly”) + ‎-n- → ‎coniungō (“to tie firmly for a long time”)

派生語

接頭辞

N-

1. (organic chemistry) the functional group that carries this prefix is attached to a nitrogen atom on the parent molecular segment

派生語

• N-tert-butyl-

関連する語

• N (nitrogen)

参考

• n-

発音

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛn/
  • 韻: -ɛn
• (phoneme): IPA: /n/

文字

n (lower case, upper case N, plural ns or n's)

1. The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

参考

• (Latin-script letters) letter; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

数

n (lower case, upper case N, plural ns or n's)

1. The fourteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

派生語

語源 2

Abbreviations.

名詞

n

1. Abbreviation of north.

   Alternative forms: n., N

2. (grammar) Abbreviation of noun.

   Alternative form: n.

3. (organic chemistry) normal
4. Neutral
5. No

形容詞

n

1. (grammar) Abbreviation of neuter (gender).

   Alternative form: n.

接続詞

n

1. Contraction of and, chiefly used in set phrases.

   Alternative form: 'n'

   rock n roll

参考

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, V v, X x, Y y, Z z

使用する際の注意点

This is the customary abbreviation of "note"/"footnote" as used in legal citation. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Subdivisions", Table T16, p. 472-73.

派生語

形容詞

n. (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Abbreviation of neuter.
2. Abbreviation of northern.