aren't

See also: arent

English

Etymology

are +‎ -n’t

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɑːnt/
(US) IPA^(key): /ɑːɹnt/
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Homophone: aunt (some non-rhotic dialects)

Verb

aren't

are not (negative auxiliary[1])
(colloquial) Spelling replacement of the homonym an’t, a contraction of “am not”, used e.g. in the construction aren’t I?
- 1800, Fenn, George Manville, To Win Or To Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze:
  I’m a nasty-tempered dog if any one tries to take my bone away; aren’t I, my sons?
- 2008 July 1, Daren Kagasoff as Ricky Underwood, “Falling in Love”, in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, season 1, episode 1:
  Aren’t I supposed to tell you how I feel?
- 2010 October 26, Athletics (music), “Why Aren’t I Home?”, in Why Aren’t I Home?‎:

Usage notes

Aren’t as a contraction of “am not” is used most often in the question aren’t I? (= am I not?). In the non-interrogative form, the standard contraction of “I am not” is “I’m not”.

Synonyms

(are not): ain’t (slang)
(am not): ain’t (slang), amn’t (Scottish and Irish dialect)

Antonyms

(are not): are
(am not): am

Translations

are not

Chinese:
Mandarin: 不是 (zh) (bùshì)

References

Arnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n’t, Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513

Anagrams

Netra, Teran, antre, atren, earnt

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