don't

See also: dont and dönt

English

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don't

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(UK)
(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /dəʊnt/
(US)
(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /doʊnt/, [doʊ̯(ʔ)t̚]
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Audio (US)
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(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -əʊnt

Contraction

don't

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- The Police, "Don't Stand So Close to Me", Zenyatta Mondatta, A&M Records:
  Don't Stand, Don't stand so, Don't stand so close to me.
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- 1971, Carol King, “So Far Away”, Tapestry, Ode Records:
  I sure hope the road don’t come to own me.
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  My girlfriend's jealous 'cause I talk about you twenty-four seven / But she don't know you like I know you, Slim, no one does / She don't know what it was like for people like us growing up / You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
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  She don't like the flash, wanna keep us in the dark / She don't like the fame, baby when we're miles apart
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  The highway don't care
(African American Vernacular English) Used before an emphatic negative subject.
Don’t nobody care.

Translations

do not

Albanian: mos (sq)
Arabic: لَا‎ (ar) (lā) (+ jussive of the verb)
Belarusian: не (be) (ne)
Bulgarian: не (bg) (ne)
Burmese: မ (my) (ma.) verb နဲ့ (my) (nai.)
Catalan: no (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 唔好 (m⁴ hou²)

Mandarin: 不要 (zh) (bùyào), 別 (zh), 别 (zh) (bié), 別介, 别介 (biéjiè), 不 (zh) (bù)
Czech: ne (cs)
Dutch: imperative + niet (nl), niet (nl) + infinitive
Esperanto: ne (eo) + jussive
Finnish: älä sg, älkää (fi) pl
French: ne... verb ...pas
Georgian: არ (ar), არ გააკეთო (ar gaaḳeto), ნუ (nu)
German: imperative + nicht (de), nicht (de) + infinitive
Hebrew: אל‎ (he) (al) (+ future third person verb of appropriate gender and number)
Hindi: न (hi) (na), (less polite) मत (hi) (mat)
Hungarian: ne (hu)
Icelandic: ekki (is) + infinitive
Ido: ne (io)
Irish: ná
Japanese: terminal + な (ja) (na), (polite) ...ないでください (...naide kudasai)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: (-지 (ji) +) 말다 (ko) (malda)

Lao: ຢ່າ (yā)
Latin: noli + infinitive (singular), nolite + infinitive (plural)
Lü: ᦊᦱᧈ (jaa²)
Macedonian: не (ne)
Malay: jangan
Persian: نکن‎ (fa) (nakon)
Polish: nie (pl)
Portuguese: não (pt)
Russian: не (ru) (ne)
Scots: dinnae
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: немој

Roman: nemoj
Slovak: ne
Slovene: ne (sl)
Spanish: no (es)
Swedish: verb ...inte (sv)
Tagalog: huwag (tl)
Thai: อย่า (th) (yàa)...
Ukrainian: не (uk) (ne)
Urdu: نـ‎ (na-), (less polite) مت‎ (mat)
Vietnamese: đừng (vi)
Welsh: na
Zulu: musa sg, musani pl, kahle (zu) sg, kahleni pl

Interjection

don't

Stop!, Don't touch that!

Translations

interjection

Maori: kauaka, kauraka

Noun

don't (plural don'ts)

Something that must not be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).

Antonyms

do

Derived terms

dos and don'ts