don't

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• /dʌnt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: dōnt
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• Received-Pronunciation: /dəʊnt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [dəʊ̯nt̚]
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• General-American: /doʊnt/
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• General-American: [dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚]
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• General-American: [doʊ̯n]
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• General-American: [dõʔ]
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• Canada: [doːnt]
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• dialectal: [dʊnt]
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• rhymes with -əʊnt
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• CMU ARPABET: D OW1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: D OW1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From do + -n't. Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects does is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.

128 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 别 (bié) — interjection
• Chinese Mandarin: 別價 /别价 (biéjie) — interjection
• Chinese Mandarin: 甭 (béng, bíng) — interjection
• Chinese Mandarin: 甭價 /甭价 (béngjie, bíngjie) — interjection
• Finnish: seis — interjection
• Hungarian: állj le — interjection
• Kapampangan: patugut — interjection
• Kapampangan: tuknang — interjection
• Lower Tanana: ena' — interjection
• Māori: kauaka — interjection
• Māori: kauraka — interjection
• Russian: стой! (stoj) — interjection
• Russian: не надо! (ne nádo) — interjection
• Swedish: låt bli! — interjection
• Swedish: nej! — interjection
• Swedish: stopp! — interjection
• Afrikaans: moenie — do not
• Albanian: mos — do not
• Northern Amami Ōshima: な (na) — do not
• Southern Amami Ōshima: な (na) — do not
• Arabic: لَا (lā) — do not
• Ashkun: mā — do not
• Belarusian: не (nje) — do not
• Bengali: না (na) — do not
• Bulgarian: не (ne) — do not
• Burmese: မ verb နဲ့ (ma.) — do not
• Catalan: no — do not
• Chinese Cantonese: 唔好 (m4 hou2) — do not
• Chinese Cantonese: 咪 (mai5) — do not
• Chinese: бә (bə) — do not
• Chinese: бо (bo) — do not
• Chinese: бу (bu) — do not
• Eastern Min Chinese: 伓通 (n̂g-tĕ̤ng) — do not
• Eastern Min Chinese: 莫 (mŏ̤h) — do not
• Hakka Chinese: 莫 (mo̍k) — do not
• Hakka Chinese: 毋使 (m̀-sṳ́) — do not
• Chinese: 伓通 (m̄-thang) — do not
• Chinese: 毋通 (zh-min-nan) — do not
• Chinese: 莫 (zh-min-nan) — do not
• Chinese Mandarin: 不要 (bùyào) — do not
• Chinese Mandarin: 別 /别 (bié) — do not
• Chinese Mandarin: 別價 /别价 — do not
• Chinese Mandarin: 别介 (biéjiè) — do not
• Chinese Mandarin: 不 (bù) — do not
• Northern Min Chinese: 莫 (mŏ̤) — do not
• Wu Chinese: 勿要 — do not
• Wu Chinese: 𧟰 — do not
• Czech: ne- — do not
• Finnish: älä — do not
• Finnish: älkää — do not
• French: ne... verb ...pas — do not
• French: ne... verb ...point — do not
• Georgian: არ (ar) — do not
• Georgian: არ გააკეთო (ar gaaḳeto) — do not
• Georgian: ნუ (nu) — do not
• Hebrew: אל (al) — do not
• Hindi: न (na) — do not
• Hindi: मत — do not
• Hungarian: nem — do not
• Hungarian: ne — do not
• Ido: ne — do not
• Indonesian: jangan — do not
• Irish: ná — do not
• Italian: non — do not
• Japanese: ...ないでください (...naide kudasai) — do not
• Kamkata-viri: nā — do not
• Kapampangan: ali — do not
• Kapampangan: e — do not
• Kapampangan: patugut — do not
• Kapampangan: tuknang — do not
• Khmer: កុំ (kom) — do not
• Kikai: な (na) — do not
• Korean: 지 말다 (-ji malda) — do not
• Kunigami: な (na) — do not
• Lao: ຢ່າ (yā) — do not
• Lü: ᦊᦱᧈ (ẏaa1) — do not
• Macedonian: не (ne) — do not
• Malagasy: aza — do not
• Malay: jangan — do not
• Manchu: ᠊ᡴᡡ (-kū) — do not
• Manchu: ᡠᠮᡝ (ume) — do not
• Miyako: な (na) — do not
• Mongolian: ᠦᠭᠡᠢ (ügei) — do not
• Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠲᠡᠬᠡᠢ (bitekei) — do not
• Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠦ (büü) — do not
• Mongolian: -гүй (-güj) — do not
• Mongolian: битгий (bitgii) — do not
• Mongolian: бүү (büü) — do not
• Norwegian Bokmål: ikke — do not
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ikkje — do not
• Okinawan: な (na) — do not
• Okinoerabu: な (na) — do not
• Persian: نکن (nakon) — do not
• Polish: nie — do not
• Portuguese: não — do not
• Prasuni: nā — do not
• Romani: ma — do not
• Romanian: nu — do not
• Russian: не (ne) — do not
• Sanskrit: मा (mā́) — do not
• Scots: dinnae — do not
• Serbo-Croatian: не — do not
• Serbo-Croatian: немој — do not
• Serbo-Croatian: ne — do not
• Serbo-Croatian: nemoj — do not
• Slovak: ne — do not
• Slovene: ne — do not
• Spanish: no — do not
• Swedish: verb ...inte — do not
• Tagalog: huwag — do not
• Thai: อย่า (yàa) — do not
• Tokunoshima: な (na) — do not
• Ukrainian: не (ne) — do not
• Urdu: نـ (na-) — do not
• Urdu: مت — do not
• Vietnamese: đừng — do not
• Waigali: mā — do not
• Welsh: na — do not
• Welsh: peidio — do not
• Yaeyama: な (na) — do not
• Yiddish: נישט (nisht) — do not
• Yiddish: ניט (nit) — do not
• Yonaguni: な (na) — do not
• Yoron: な (na) — do not
• Zulu: musa — do not
• Zulu: musani — do not
• Zulu: kahle — do not
• Zulu: kahleni — do not