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ʼn Appendix:Variations of "n" English Pronunciation en /n/ [n̩] Etymology 1 en and. Conjunction conj en 'n'. fish n chips rock n roll en Arthur D[ouglas] Howden Smith The Ferryman Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement New York, N.Y. Robert M[edill] McBride & Company 1927 III 50–51 https://archive.org/details/commodorevanderb00smit/page/50/mode/1up “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.” Etymology 2 Conjunction conj en than. en 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 bettern any other frog." en 1969 Anne Warner Susan Clegg and her friend Mrs. Lathrop 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. en 2004 w:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Intelligent Systems Nintendo GameCube Glitzville Nintendo of America lock this room up tighter n a peanut butter jar at a squirrel convention en 2010 Arnan Heyden Daughters of Agendale 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… Etymology 3 Conjunction conj en archaic en when as found in en if'n. Etymology 4 Noun en colloquial en 'un one, a thing. en 2009 Mariella Glenn Hartsfield Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby: South Georgia Folktales 104 The other said, "Alright, I'm gonna do it like this: you take thisn, I'll take thatn; you take thisn, I'll take thatn; en 2012 Liza Cody Musclebound 15 Which really did turn into a headache when I woke up — a badn. Etymology 5 Preposition en preposition en archaic en in as found in en where'n. See also en off'n en clitics apheretic forms Afrikaans ʼn Etymology From af nl een een, 'n. Pronunciation af /ə/ af LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar-'n.wav Article af article indefinite af indefinite article en a, en an Usage notes This word is not capitalized at the beginning of a sentence and the following word is capitalized instead. Asturian Preposition ast preposition ast superseded ast en ast Toi viviendon Cangues I'm living in Cangues Usage notes While this contraction still reflects the elision that often occurs in en 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 now Toi viviendo en Cangues. See also ast n' ast 'l Bavarian Etymology 1 Merged unstressed form of bar an and bar en or bar den. Article bar article m a accusative the accusative See also Etymology 2 Unstressed form of bar eam. Pronoun bar pronoun personal pronouns him it dative See also Catalan Pronoun ca ne Usage notes reduced Declension Cornish Etymology 1 Determiner kw det en his Pronoun kw pron en him kw Hi a'n kwelas. She saw him. Etymology 2 From kw 'gan. Pronoun kw pron Reduced form of kw 'gan See also Dutch Pronunciation nl /ən/ nl Nl-'n.ogg Article nl article nl een Usage notes If n begins a sentence, the first letter of the following word is capitalised instead. Franco-Provençal Determiner frp determiner form frp un German Alternative forms de n non-standard Pronunciation de /n̩/ /ən/ de /m̩/ often before a labial /ŋ̍/ often before a velar Etymology 1 de ein. Like virtually all traditional German dialects, colloquial standard German distinguishes the indefinite article from the numeral for "one". The specific form de 'n has spread from the North southward and is thus of chiefly de nds - 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 de 'n is clearly the commonest form. Article de article de colloquial de ein a, an de colloquial de einen a, an Declension de 'nem de 'nen de 'ne de 'ner Derived terms de so'n Etymology 2 Contraction of de denn. Adverb de colloquial short for de denn (used for general emphasis) de Wann wärstn hier? So, when would you be here? Italian Etymology 1 Preposition it preposition it literary it in it colloquial it in Etymology 2 Article it article m it colloquial it un Numeral it numeral m it colloquial it un Etymology 3 Adverb it it colloquial it non Ligurian Etymology Apheresis of lij un a, an article. Pronunciation lij /ŋ/ when followed by a consonant lij /n/ when followed by a vowel Article lij article m feminine 'na, 'n' a, an male Low German Article nds article nds den Pronoun nds pronoun nds en North Frisian Pronoun frr pronoun frr Föhr-Amrum Mooring frr Reduced form ham him frr Sylt frr Reduced form höm him See also Sicilian Etymology Apheresis of scn in, from scn la in. Pronunciation scn /ŋ/ when followed by a consonant scn /n/ when followed by a vowel Preposition scn preposition in Welsh Pronunciation cy /n/ Etymology 1 Particle cy particle cy yn used after a vowel cy Mae hin darllen. She is reading. 1 cy Mae hin gysglyd. She is sleepy. 1 cy Mae hin ferch. She is a girl. 1 Etymology 2 cy ein our. Determiner cy determiner possessive determiners triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel our used after vowels. cy Dynan harian ni. That's our money. Pronoun cy pronoun personal pronouns triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel us as the direct object of a verbal noun or verb cy Mae e yma in harfarnu. He's here to appraise us. cy Fen magwyd yng ngefn gwlad. We were brought up (lit. One brought us up) in the countryside. Usage notes In formal Welsh, the contraction cy 'n is a valid form of cy ein found after mostly functional vowel-final words. In colloquial Welsh, cy ein is often contracted to cy 'n after almost any vowel-final word. Pronomial cy 'n (and cy ein) can occur before any verbal noun. Before verbal, pronomial cy 'n is found only in formal language after certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such as cy fe, cy a, cy ni, cy na, cy oni and cy pe. Further reading Zealandic Etymology An unstressed variety of zea eên. Determiner zea determiner a (indefinite article)