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# ain

«ain» in Mova's school dictionary: **not a word on its own; it is the first part of «ain't», a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

fragment (part of «ain't»); verb form in informal speech: ain't = am not / is not / are not / has not / have not

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ain is not a word on its own; it is the first part of «ain't», a short form cut off at the apostrophe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ain/#m1)

2) (informal, nonstandard) Ain't means am not, is not, are not, has not or have not, as in «I ain't got any». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ain/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

It appears in stories and real speech when a character talks in a very casual or dialect way; it tells the reader the speaker is relaxed, rough or from a certain place. In school writing and exams you should write the full form instead. Phrases: «ain't got», «it ain't fair», «if it ain't broke, don't fix it».

### examples

- «I ain't going,» said the boy in the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ain/#x1)
- It ain't fair — she got more cake! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ain/#x2)
- «We ain't seen nothing yet,» the farmer laughed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ain/#x3)
- If it ain't broke, don't fix it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ain/#x4)
- In your essay, write «isn't», not «ain't». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ain/#x5)
- «You ain't finished your sums,» Nan grumbled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ain/#x6)
- "Brer Fox ain't sayin' nuthin' 'tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ain/#x7)

### note

Ain't is nonstandard; teachers mark it wrong in formal writing. Change it to isn't, aren't, am not, hasn't or haven't. A double negative like «ain't got none» means «haven't got any» in meaning, not a positive. In maths problems «ain't» changes nothing about the numbers; read it as «is not / has not».

### In the corpora

- [and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.398/)
- [Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.496/)
- [And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.195/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.