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Shortening of words or phrases
A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds
Contraction_(grammar)
Topics referred to by the same term
I'll may refer to "I'll", meaning "I will" or "I shall", a contraction (grammar) I'll (manga) "I'll", a song by Band-Maid from Unleash "I'll", a song by
I'll
Topics referred to by the same term
up contraction or contracted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contraction may refer to: Contraction (grammar), a shortened word Poetic contraction, omission
Contraction
Topics referred to by the same term
kid version of Doctor Eggman, from New Yoke City, in Sonic Prime Contraction (grammar) Do (verb) All pages with titles beginning with Don't This disambiguation
Don't
Reduction of a word to one of its parts
Abbreviation Acronym Blend word Clipping (phonetics) Compound (linguistics) Contraction (grammar) Diminutive Word formation "Shortenings". Oxford Dictionaries Online
Clipping_(morphology)
Grammar of the English language
English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts
English_grammar
Loss of word-final sounds
Acronym and initialism Apheresis (linguistics) Clipping (morphology) Contraction (grammar) Elision Syncope (phonetics) "Apocope". Oxford Dictionaries UK English
Apocope
Merging of two syllables into one
dot): Los·ca·be·llos·queal·o·roos·cu·re·cí·an. Metaplasm Elision—Contraction (grammar) Apheresis (initial) Syncope (medial) Apocope (final) Crasis Synizesis
Synalepha
Punctuation or diacritical mark (')
Apologetic apostrophe – Modern Scots orthography Backtick Caron ("Hacek") Contraction (grammar) Genitive case Modifier letter double apostrophe Possessive case
Apostrophe
Vowel sandhi process
(/ˈkreɪsɪs/; from the Greek κρᾶσις, lit. 'mixing' or 'blending') is a type of contraction in which two vowels or diphthongs merge into one new vowel or diphthong
Crasis
Small set of grammatically distinctive verbs of English
originally rather vague and varied significantly. The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use
English_auxiliary_verbs
Grammar of the Japanese language
kiiro (黄色), and a more casual recent example is kimo-i (きもい, gross), by contraction of kimochi waru-i (気持ち悪い, bad-feeling). By contrast, in Old Japanese
Japanese_grammar
Grammar of the Tagalog language
Tagalog grammar (Tagalog: Balarilà ng Tagalog) are the rules that describe the structure of expressions in the Tagalog language, one of the languages
Tagalog_grammar
Fictional language in the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning. The political contractions of Newspeak – Ingsoc (English Socialism), Minitrue (Ministry of Truth)
Newspeak
Grammatical features of the Hindustani lingua franca
of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style. On this grammar page, Hindustani is written in the transcription outlined in Masica (1991)
Hindustani_grammar
Sound change
Synalepha Elision Contraction (grammar) Crasis Synaeresis Greenough, J. B. (2001) [1903], Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (Focus ed.), Newburyport
Synizesis
Pregroup grammar (PG) is a grammar formalism intimately related to categorial grammars. Much like categorial grammar (CG), PG is a kind of type logical
Pregroup_grammar
Language of ancient Sumer and Babylon
the absence of vowel contraction in some words—though objections have been raised against that as well. A recent descriptive grammar by Bram Jagersma includes
Sumerian_language
Omission of sounds in words or phrases
Wayback Machine (contains pop-up ad) Greek Grammar Putting Words Together List of words said with Relaxed Pronunciation - also includes contractions
Elision
Grammar of the Modern Greek language
brackets and romanization of Greek according to UN/ELOT rules in italics. The grammar of Modern Greek, as spoken in present-day Greece and Cyprus, is essentially
Modern_Greek_grammar
Grammar of the Cebuano language
Cebuano grammar encompasses the rules that define the Cebuano language, the most widely spoken of all the languages in the Visayan Group of languages
Cebuano_grammar
Rules of word and sentence formation in the Philippine language
Ilocano grammar is the study of the morphological and syntactic structures of the Ilocano language, a language spoken in the northern Philippines by ethnic
Ilocano_grammar
Grammar of the Ancient Greek language
Ancient Greek grammar is morphologically complex and preserves several features of Proto-Indo-European morphology. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, articles
Ancient_Greek_grammar
Grammar of the Kurdish language
Kurdish grammar has many inflections, with prefixes and suffixes added to roots to express grammatical relations and to form words. Among all modern Iranian
Kurdish_grammar
Grammar of the Portuguese language
In Portuguese grammar, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and articles are moderately inflected: there are two genders (masculine and feminine) and two numbers
Portuguese_grammar
Indo-Aryan language native to the region of Punjab of Pakistan and India
Pakistan and India and spoken by the Punjabi people. This page discusses the grammar of Modern Standard Punjabi as defined by the relevant sources below (see
Punjabi_grammar
Grammatical features of the Hachijō language of Japan
The Hachijō language shares much of its grammar with its sister language of Japanese—having both descended from varieties of Old Japanese—as well as with
Hachijō_grammar
Grammar of the Italian language
Italian grammar is the body of rules describing the properties of the Italian language. Italian words can be divided into the following lexical categories:
Italian_grammar
Group of words in systemic functional grammar
In systemic functional grammar (SFG), a nominal group is a group of words that represents or describes an entity, for example The nice old English police
Nominal group (functional grammar)
Nominal_group_(functional_grammar)
Atlantic-Congo language
Related Studies (8): 49–58. Bamgboṣe, Ayọ (1965a). "Assimilation and contraction in Yoruba". Journal of West African Languages (2): 21–27. Bamgboṣe, Ayọ
Yoruba_language
deram-no-lo (deram + nos + o), "Não vo-lo [vos + o] quero dar a entender." The contraction for lhes + o is lho, not *lhe-lo or *lhos. This occurs because lhe used
Personal pronouns in Portuguese
Personal_pronouns_in_Portuguese
Grammar of the Swedish language
Swedish grammar is either the study of the grammar of the Swedish language, or the grammatical system itself of the Swedish language. Swedish is descended
Swedish_grammar
Aspect of the language
Old Norse Old Swedish Grammar Old Norwegian Grammar Old Danish Grammar Proto-Germanic grammar Old Norse for Beginners, Grammar reference: Neuter nouns
Old_Norse_morphology
Structure of the Yiddish language
Yiddish grammar is the system of principles which govern the structure of the Yiddish language. This article describes the standard form laid out by YIVO
Yiddish_grammar
Mathematical framework for natural language processing
compositionality. The grammatical derivations in a categorial grammar (usually a pregroup grammar) are interpreted as linear maps acting on the tensor product
DisCoCat
English language suffix
The suffix -ly in English is usually a contraction of -like, similar to the Anglo-Saxon -lice and German -lich. It is often added to an adjective to form
-ly
Type of word in some languages
pronoun.) Historically, inflected prepositions can develop from the contraction of a preposition with a personal pronoun; however, they are commonly
Inflected_preposition
Linguistic reconstruction
varyingly different reconstructions of Proto-Germanic grammar, as inherited from Proto-Indo-European grammar. All reconstructed forms are marked with an asterisk
Proto-Germanic_grammar
Linguistic theory
phrase structure grammar, lexical functional grammar, construction grammar, and most dependency grammars), in contrast, reject the notion of movement
Syntactic_movement
outline of the grammar of Interlingua, an international auxiliary language first publicized by IALA. It follows the usage of the original grammar text (Gode
Interlingua_grammar
Language as naturally spoken by humans
across generations of people in the community, regional expansion or contraction, and gradual internal and structural changes. The vast majority of languages
Natural_language
comitative preposition na. In the present tense, however, kuwa na has special contractions, whereby the subject prefix is attached directly onto -na. Note that
Swahili_grammar
West Germanic language
"Ullans", a recent neologism merging Ulster and Lallans. Scots is a contraction of Scottis, the Older Scots and northern version of late Old English:
Scots_language
Greek long vowels written as diphthongs
"Muse" *doter-ya → δότειρα "giver" (feminine; compare masculine δοτήρ) or contraction of two vowels: φιλέ-ετε → φιλεῖτε "you (pl.) love" νόος → νοῦς "mind"
Spurious_diphthong
Grammatical rules of late Quenya
his fictional universe, Middle-earth. Here is presented a resume of the grammar of late Quenya as established from Tolkien's writings c. 1951–1973. It
Grammar_of_late_Quenya
Punctuation to signal the end of a sentence (.)
abbreviations—in British usage, primarily truncations such as Rev., but not after contractions which retain the final letter such as Revd; in American English, it is
Full_stop
English-language vernacular inflected form
coincidence: independent developments and at different times. Amn't as a contraction of am not is known from 1618. As the "mn" combination of two nasal consonants
Ain't
Grammar of the Old Irish language
This article describes the grammar of the Old Irish language. The grammar of the language has been described with exhaustive detail by various authors
Old_Irish_grammar
Morphology and syntax of Catalan
Catalan grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Catalan language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages. Catalan is a relatively
Catalan_grammar
Disputes over "correct" grammar and style
oblique form. The validity of aren't as a negative first-person singular contraction for to be in interrogative uses – e.g., "Aren't I the one you were talking
English_usage_controversies
Use of the pronoun you to refer to an unspecified person
pronoun Y'all – Contraction of you and all (you all, all of you) Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoffrey (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
Generic_you
Archaic form of the Hebrew language
been preserved regionally at one point. See Rendsburg (1997:72) Such contraction is also found in Ugaritic, the El-Amarna letters, and in Phoenician,
Biblical_Hebrew
Grammar of the Zulu language of Southern Africa
Zulu grammar is the way in which meanings are encoded into wordings in the Zulu language. Zulu grammar is typical for Bantu languages, bearing all the
Zulu_grammar
Consonantal sounds represented by ⟨ɾ⟩ in IPA
articulation is tap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that the tongue makes very brief contact. Its place
Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps
Voiced_dental_and_alveolar_taps_and_flaps
Alteration in the pronunciation or the orthography of a word
occurs by elision, crasis, synaeresis, or synizesis. Elision ("contraction" in English grammar), removal of a sound: beginning of a word (apheresis) middle
Metaplasm
Indigenous language isolate from the Southeastern Woodlands, U.S.
prevalence of contractions. Contraction should not here be taken to mean only a shortening of words; rather, it is more useful to think of contraction as a deletion
Yuchi_language
Japanese dialect
conjugations of the continuative form (~ている -te iru): -toru (~とる) is a contraction of -te oru V-stem + -yoru (~よる) is a slurring of oru Example: "What are
Iyo_dialect
Contraction of you and all
Y'all (pronounced /jɔːl/ yawl) is a contraction of you all, sometimes combined as you-all. Y'all is the main second-person plural pronoun in Southern
Y'all
Grammar of the Irish language
source. Please help improve this article by citing more sources. Find sources: "Irish grammar" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2020)
Irish_grammar
Historic form of Sanskrit
Proto-Indo-European accent, which only distinguishes tone height. However, the contraction of two syllables, the first of which carries an udātta (high pitch) and
Vedic_Sanskrit
Theory of syntax
hierarchy. Link grammar is similar to dependency grammar, but dependency grammar includes a head-dependent relationship, whereas link grammar makes the head-dependent
Link_grammar
Grammatical features of Old English
The grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected. As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological
Old_English_grammar
Ancient Greek dialect group
whose w is dropped. Attic Greek grammar follows Ancient Greek grammar to a large extent. References to Attic Grammar are usually in reference to peculiarities
Attic_Greek
Punctuation of writing as used in the English language
punctuation and the use or omission of the full point (period) with contraction abbreviations. The terms open and closed punctuation have been applied
English_punctuation
This article presents a brief overview of the grammar of the Sesotho language and provides links to more detailed articles. The Sesotho language may be
Sesotho_grammar
Extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia
vowels arising from the contraction of vowels in hiatus. The distinction between long and short is phonemic, and is used in the grammar; for example, iprusu
Akkadian_language
Nguni language of eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries
Zulu, as a result of the contraction of certain syllables. For example, the word ithambo /íːtʰámbó/ "bone", is a contraction of an earlier ilithambo /ílítʰámbó/
Zulu_language
form 有冇: As for 係 hai6 ("to be"), the yes–no question often uses the contraction 係咪 hai6 mai6 (note that 咪 mai6 is not the prohibitive 咪 mai2) instead
Cantonese_grammar
Dakotan language spoken in North America
shift, contraction, nasalization loss, syllable loss, syntactic contraction, and syntactic alternation. Examples from Levin (1964). Contraction->When two
Assiniboine_language
North Germanic language
hunden som ikke kom tilbake. ('It was the dog that did not return.') Contractions with the negation, as is accepted in for example English (cannot, hadn't
Norwegian_language
Grammatical construction common in English
is, can, have, will, etc.) are described as English auxiliaries and contractions. Note that forms of the verb be are included regardless of whether or
Subject–auxiliary_inversion
Digraph of the Latin alphabet
Afrikaans, and is pronounced as a schwa. The symbol itself came about as a contraction of its Dutch equivalent een meaning "one" (just as English an comes from
N-apostrophe
Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ɽ⟩ in IPA
articulation is tap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (usually the tongue) is thrown
Voiced_retroflex_flap
Topics referred to by the same term
register Ch (computer programming), a cross-platform C/C++ interpreter Contraction hierarchies, in computer science, a speed-up technique for finding shortest
CH
accusative singular and plural. As is the rule, the vowel resulting from contraction takes a circumflex: nom.: ἁλιεύς "fisherman", gen.: ἁλιέως and ἁλιῶς
Ancient_Greek_nouns
System of resource-aware logic
of classical sequent calculus in which uses of (the structural rules) contraction and weakening are carefully controlled. Operationally, this means that
Linear_logic
Words in Japanese that substitute for a noun or noun phrase
others thought they were only nouns. The gakkō bunpō (学校文法; lit. 'school grammar') of today has followed Iwabuchi Etsutarō's model, which does not recognize
Pronouns_in_Japanese
be) comprises all its conjugations (am, are, is, was, were, etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. These top 100 lemmas listed below account for
Most_common_words_in_English
Romanization scheme for Cantonese
Jyutping (itself the Jyutping romanisation of its Chinese name, 粵拼) is a contraction of the official name, and it consists of the first Chinese characters
Jyutping
Grammar of the Slovincian language
The grammar of the Slovincian language is characterized by a high degree of inflection, a lack of articles, and vowel, consonant, and stress alternations
Slovincian_grammar
Using 'do' in negated clauses, questions, and other constructions
(sometimes referred to as do-insertion or periphrastic do) in English grammar is the use of the auxiliary verb do (or one of its inflected forms, e.g
Do-support
Contraction of the article "het", meaning "the"
In the Dutch language, the word 't (Dutch pronunciation: [ət]) is a contraction of the article "het", meaning "the". 't can be found as a tussenvoegsel
't
Form of the Arabic language
Standard Arabic is based. Several written grammars of Classical Arabic were published with the exegesis of Arabic grammar being at times based on the existing
Classical_Arabic
Conversion of character sequences into token sequences in computer science
differences. First, lexical tokenization is usually based on a lexical grammar, whereas LLM tokenizers are usually probability-based. Second, LLM tokenizers
Lexical_analysis
Word consisting of two words
kind of blend can be deliberate or accidental. A blend is similar to a contraction. On one hand, mainstream blends tend to be formed at a particular historical
Portmanteau
Basic elements of language
("[type][writ]er", "[cow][boy]s", "[tele][graph]ically") are called compound words. Contractions ("can't", "would've") are words formed from multiple words made into
Word
Constructed international auxiliary language
international auxiliary language, it primarily drew from Germanic languages. Its grammar is inspired largely by German, although it was heavily regularized by Schleyer
Volapük
Grammar of the Breton language
Breton is a Brittonic Celtic language in the Indo-European family, and its grammar has many traits in common with these languages. Like most Indo-European
Breton_grammar
Case study
grammar. She clearly mastered some basic aspects of grammar, and understood significantly more than she used in her speech, but her rate of grammar acquisition
Linguistic development of Genie
Linguistic_development_of_Genie
Middle Aramaic language once used by Jewish writers in Lower Mesopotamia
oneself upon or referring to." Frank 2001, p. 229. Frank 2001, p. 229: "A contraction of the participle קָאֵים (from the root קום) is often placed before another
Jewish_Babylonian_Aramaic
Part of Korean grammar class
contract. Without vowel contraction al 알 al "know" + e⁄a → al.a 알아 ara mek 먹 meok "eat" + e⁄a → mek.e 먹어 meogeo With vowel contraction ka 가 ga "go" + e⁄a →
Korean_verbs
Text at the top of a newspaper article
for the World Economic Forum, and so on. Many abbreviations, including contractions and acronyms, are used: in the UK, some examples are Lib Dems (for the
Headline
British slang for a young upper-class person
upper-middle class person in the United Kingdom. The term "rah" originated as a contraction of "Hoorah Henry" (sometimes "Hoorah Henries and Henriettas"), a pejorative
Rah_(slang)
are condoned by some dictionaries. There may be regional variations in grammar, orthography, and word-use, especially between different English-speaking
List of commonly misused English words
List_of_commonly_misused_English_words
Grammar of the Manx language
The grammar of the Manx language has much in common with related Indo-European languages, such as nouns that display gender, number and case and verbs
Manx_grammar
Title that conveys position or rank
Abbreviations that include the initial and final letters (a type of contraction) are typically written in most English dialects (modern U.K. English
Honorific
Neighborhood in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
ObálendéListen, a contraction of the Yoruba saying Ibi ti Oba le wa de, meaning "Where the king chased us to", is a neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria, located
Obalende
Number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100
"hundred" or "by the hundred". The sign for "percent" evolved by gradual contraction of the Italian term per cento, meaning "for a hundred". The "per" was
Percentage
Grammar of the Cornish language
Cornish grammar is the grammar of the Cornish language (Kernewek or Kernowek), an insular Celtic language closely related to Breton and Welsh and, to a
Cornish_grammar
Grammatical mood in Ancient Greek
Greek Grammar for Colleges. § 1768. ἄν (ā́n), when it means "if", has a long vowel, because it is a contraction of εἰ ἄν (ei án). Smyth. A Greek Grammar for
Subjunctive_(Ancient_Greek)
CONTRACTION GRAMMAR
CONTRACTION GRAMMAR
Biblical
bitter contrition
Girl/Female
Hindu
Creation, Construction, Arrangement
Girl/Female
Tamil
Creation, Construction, Arrangement
Boy/Male
Biblical
Bitter contrition, without judgment.
Biblical
who possesses contrition
Biblical
bitter contrition, without judgment
Girl/Female
Hindu
Light, Beauty, Prosperity, Rank, Power, Steel construction company
Girl/Female
Tamil
Creation, Construction, Arrangement
Girl/Female
Hindu
Creation, Construction, Arrangement
Girl/Female
Indian
Built; Construction; Creative Art; All Creation
Girl/Female
Biblical
Bitter contrition.
Girl/Female
Biblical American English Hebrew Latin
Who possesses contrition.
Girl/Female
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Construction; Arrangement; Creative Art; All Creation
Girl/Female
Tamil
Light, Beauty, Prosperity, Rank, Power, Steel construction company
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Produce; New Construction
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French
Record Keeper; Chancellor; Secretary; Contraction of Chancellor
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Christian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Swedish, Teutonic
Contraction of Frederick; Peace; Peaceful Ruler
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Creation; Evolution; Construction
Boy/Male
Biblical Hebrew
Contrition, bitter, bruising'.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, Latin
Church Official; Chancellor; A Gamble; Good Fortune; Contraction of Chancellor
CONTRACTION GRAMMAR
CONTRACTION GRAMMAR
Female
Welsh
Welsh name, probably from the word aderyn, DERYN means "bird."Â
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim, Pashtun
Princess; Leader; Chief; A Noble Lady; A Wealthy Lady
Surname or Lastname
English
English : see Christenberry.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Briliant
Girl/Female
Hindu
Good Saraswati
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Brave in the Battlefield
Boy/Male
Hindu
Like to think
Girl/Female
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Tamil
Beautiful Girl
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Lotus
Boy/Male
Afghan, Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Iranian, Marathi, Muslim, Parsi, Pashtun, Sindhi
Safe; Name of a Friend of Ali; Peaceable
CONTRACTION GRAMMAR
CONTRACTION GRAMMAR
CONTRACTION GRAMMAR
CONTRACTION GRAMMAR
CONTRACTION GRAMMAR
n.
A contraction of Photograph.
n.
The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
n.
The process of shortening an operation.
n.
A marriage contract.
a.
Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., relating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur.
adv.
a contraction of Never.
n.
Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
n.
A contraction of Sophomore.
prep.
A contraction of Against.
a.
tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.
n.
Peristaltic contraction or action.
n.
Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.
n.
Contradiction.
n.
A contraction of cousin.
a.
Capable of contraction.
n.
The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
a.
Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
n.
A contraction for Violoncello.
n.
The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.