don't

See also: dont and dönt

English

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don't

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Template:sureffix.

Pronunciation

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

Contraction

don't

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Contraction of do not, negative auxiliary.
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  “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. […]”
- 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.
(nonstandard)
(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Contraction of does not.
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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!

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