縮約. The omission of sounds or letters from words. Contractions can be characteristic of dialects or modes of speech. A frequently observed contraction may become a new word in a language.
Questions tagged [contractions]
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Contractions in やんなっちゃう
A person is comparing herself to some disreputable school mates, thinking that she might be similar to them, and says:
やんなっちゃうなぁ
Is this a contraction of (い)やになっちゃうなぁ meaning "I ended up becoming unlikeable"?
I'm coming across more and more of…
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Can 〜てなんかいない contract to 〜てなんかない?
In this answer, nkjt gives the following example of なんか insertion:
待ってないんだから → 待ってなんかないんだから
On the left-hand side, it appears that 〜ていない is contracted to 〜てない. This is very common, of course, but as I understand it, contractions of いる to る only…
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How to parse 何てこった
Is 何てこった a contraction of なんてこう行った, or なんてこう言った, or is this something totally different?
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What's the un-contracted form of 何を言うてんねん?
I'm assuming that the first ん, after て, stands for る. However, I simply cannot parse the ねん that comes afterward. How exactly does "what the hell are you saying" become 何を言うてんねん, or if my first assumption is correct, 何を言うてるねん?
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Is じゃ here another way of saying では
なんじゃ, the じゃ here is this supposed to be a way of saying では? I know the expression means what. But I don't get what the じは here does. The inly other I have is that it is a way of saying だ
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How to interpret ないって
How to interpret ないって in the following sentence?
アイスには賞味期限がないって本当ですか？
がない looks like negative form of ある, but what is って then? Can it be a contraction of quoting particle と?
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What is んの short for in 「なんで鍵なんか閉めてんの？」
I'm familar how ん can help form contractions like:
んです ↦ のです
なんです ↦ なのです
but I recently came across んの:
あれ お兄ちゃん
なんで鍵なんか閉めてんの？
What is this short for? My best guess is that ん is short for いる and の is short for のですか. Is this the case?
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