dunno

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdʌnəʊ/, /dəˈnəʊ/

Etymology

Written form of a reduction of do not know or does not know.

Contraction

dunno

1. Eye dialect spelling of do not know; eye dialect spelling of does not know.

   I dunno the answers to any of those questions, and you dunno and he dunno either.

   "Where'd he go?" / "Dunno."

Usage notes

This is one of the only verb forms in English that regularly does not require a pronoun. When the pronoun is not given, it is assumed to be I; all other pronouns must be given. It is never mandatory to drop I, although it is most common to do so when dunno is the only word in the sentence.

Translations

do (does) not know

• Dutch: weet ik het niet (nl)
• French: chais pas
• German: (colloquial) weiß nich (de)

• Italian: boh (it)
• Latin: nescio (la)
• Russian: не (ru) (ne) знать (ru) (znatʹ)
• Spanish: (colloquial mexico 1st person sing.) sepa (es), (Chile) sabí (es)
• Swedish: venne (colloquial), vet inte

Noun

dunno (plural dunnos)

1. An utterance of the word dunno.