Full Contracted form

Notes Irregular forms: "ain't", "don't", "won't", "shan't". "n't" can only be attached to an auxiliary verb which is itself not contracted. only contracted for first-person plural imperative (e.g. not for "Let us go" as a command to a third person) only in "I'm" we're /wr/ is pronounced differently than were /wr/

not

n't

let us let's

am are is

'm 're

does 's has

very informal, as in "What's he do there every day?"

as

nonstandard English dialect for the relative pronoun "that" English only contracts forms of have when used as auxiliaries]

have 've had did would will, 'll shall of o' 'd

very informal, as in "Where'd she go?"

used mostly in o'clock, where it is mandatory in contemporary use Archaic, except in stock uses such as 'Twas the night before Christmas contracted from hem, but used for modern them

it

't

them 'em

him

'im

ain't is contracted from am not but is not isn't, or ain't now also used for is not; generally deprecated in modern use is a contraction of the words "you" and "all." Where the "you" becomes "ya" colloquially, and the apostrophe replaces the "a" of "all". It is used as a plural secondperson pronoun. Mainly used in the United States.

you all

y'all