don't

See also dont, and dönt

English

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Etymology

From do +‎ -n't.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dəʊnt/, X-SAMPA: /d@Unt/
• (US) IPA: /doʊnt/, X-SAMPA: /doUnt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊnt

Contraction

don't

1. Contraction of do not.
   • 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.

2. (nonstandard) Contraction of does not.
   • 1971, Carol King, “So Far Away”, Tapestry, Ode Records:

     I sure hope the road don’t come to own me.

   • 2000, Eminem, “Stan” (song), in The Marshall Mathers LP (album): 

     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

   • 2012, Justin Bieber, “She Don't Like the Lights” (song), in Believe (album): 

     She don't like the flash, wanna keep us in the dark / She don't like the fame, baby when we're miles apart

3. (African American Vernacular) Used before an emphatic negative subject.

   Don’t nobody care.

Translations

do not

• Albanian: mos (sq)
• Arabic: لا (ar) (laa) (+ jussive of the verb)
• Belarusian: не (be) (ne) 
• Bulgarian: не (bg) (ne) 
• Burmese: မ (my) (mă) verb နဲ့ (my) (nè.)
• Catalan: no (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不要 (cmn) (bùyào), 別 (cmn), 别 (cmn) (bié), 別介 (cmn), 别介 (cmn) (biéjiè), 不 (cmn) (bù)

• Czech: ne (cs)
• Dutch: imperative + niet (nl), niet (nl) + infinitive
• Esperanto: ne (eo) + jussive
• Finnish: älä sg, älkää pl
• French: ne... verb ...pas
• 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
• Irish: ná (ga)
• Japanese: terminal + な (ja) (na), (polite) ...ないでください (ja) (...naide kudasai)

• Korean: (-지 (ji) +) 말다 (ko) (malda)
• Latin: noli + infinitive (singular), nolite + infinitive (plural)
• Macedonian: не (mk) (ne)
• Malay: jangan (ms)
• Persian: نکن (fa) (nakon)
• Polish: nie (pl)
• Russian: не (ru) (ne) 
• Scots: dinnae
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: не (sh)

  Roman: ne (sh)

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

Interjection

don't

1. Stop!, Don't do that!

Noun

don't (plural don'ts)

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

Antonyms

• do

Derived terms

• dos and don'ts

See also

• doesn't