dont

See also: don't and dönt

English

Contraction

dont

1. (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of don't

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Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ̃nt/

Etymology

Cognate with Welsh dod and Cornish dos, dones, contracted from Cornish devones; from Cornish de + Cornish mones (“to go”).

Verb

dont

1. (intransitive) to come

Conjugation

Personal forms
	Indicative				Conditional		Imperative
	Present	Imperfect	Preterite	Future	Present	Imperfect
1s	deuan	deuen	deuis	deuin	deufen	deujen	-
2s	deuez	deues	deujout	deui	deufes	deujes	deu
3s	deu	deue	deuas	deuo	deufe	deuje	deuet
1p	deuomp	deuemp	deujomp	deuimp	deufemp	deujemp	deuomp
2p	deuit	deuec'h	deujoc'h	deuot	deufec'h	deujec'h	deuit
3p	deuont	deuent	deujont	deuint	deufent	deujent	deuent
0	deuer	deued	deujod	deuor	deufed	deujed	-
Impersonal forms					Mutated forms
Infinitive: dont, donet Present participle: o tont Past participle: deuet (auxiliary verb: bezañ)					Soft mutation after a: a zeu- Mixed mutation after e: e teu- Soft mutation after ne/na: ne/na zeu-

Inflection

  Mutation of dont  

Breton consonant mutation
unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
dont	zont	unchanged	tont	tont

Derived terms

• a zeu

Alternative forms

• doned

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ̃/

• Audio (France)

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• Homophones: dom, don, dons
• Rhymes: -dɔ̃

Etymology

From Middle French dont, from Old French dunt, from Vulgar Latin/Latin dē unde (“from where”), whence also d'où (“from where”). Compare Spanish donde (“where”).

Pronoun

dont

1. of/from whom/which, whose.

   Vous rappelez-vous ce dont je vous ai parlé ?

   Do you remember that of which we spoke?

   Il n’est rien dont je sois encore certain.

   It is nothing of which I am still certain.

   Quel est le pays dont provient cette marchandise suspecte ?

   What is the country from which the suspicious merchandise comes?

   J’ai décidé d’abandonner l’affaire dont je vous ai entretenu il y a quelques jours.

   I decided to abandon the matter of which we have been speaking for a few days.

   La maladie dont il est mort porte un nom imprononçable.

   The disease of which he died has an unpronounceable name.

   Les pays dont nous n’avons point de connaissance sont les destinations privilégiées des grands aventuriers.

   The countries of which we have little knowledge are the privileged destinations of great adventurers.

   Ces étoiles — dont le nom m’échappe — sont les plus brillantes de la voûte céleste.

   These stars, whose names escape me, are the brightest in the skies.

2. (sometimes) by which.

   Le coup dont il fut frappé.

   The blow by which he was struck.

3. Denotes a part of a set, may be translated as "including".

   Il a eu dix enfants, dont neuf filles.

   He had ten children, nine of them girls.

Synonyms

• (of which): de qui, de quoi, duquel m, de laquelle f, desquels m pl, desquelles f pl

Derived terms

• dont auquel

Anagrams

• tond

Further reading

• “dont” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• dant

Pronoun

dont

1. of whom; of which

Descendants

• French: dont