mayn’t
# mayn’t
## Anglais
### Étymologie

    De l’auxiliaire may et du suffixe flexionnel négatif -n’t.

# mayn’t
## Anglais
### Forme de verbe

mayn’t \ˈmeɪ.ənt\ (Auxiliaire)
* (Archaïsme) Négation de l’auxiliaire may. N’avoir le droit, ne pas pouvoir.
** I mayn’t have much head, master, but I’ve head enough to remember those that use me ill. — (Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, 1841, chap. 40)
** “Mulligan’s our Health Officer, and a one-idea man,” said the Mayor, laughing. “But it’s true that most Serviles haven’t much control. They will talk; and when people take to talking as a business, anything may arrive—mayn’t it, De Forest?” — (Rudyard Kipling, As Easy As A.B.C., 1912)

# mayn’t
## Anglais
### Forme de verbe
#### Synonymes

* may not

# mayn’t
## Anglais
### Forme de verbe
#### Apparentés étymologiques

* -n’t
| Affirmatif | Négatif |
| am | (amn’t) |
| are | aren’t |
| is | isn’t |
| was | wasn’t |
| were | weren’t |
| — | ain’t |
| be | (bean’t) |
| Affirmatif | Négatif |
| do | don’t |
| does | doesn’t |
| did | didn’t |
| have | haven’t |
| has | hasn’t |
| had | hadn’t |
| Affirmatif | Négatif |
| can | cannot, can’t |
| could | couldn’t |
| may | (mayn’t) |
| might | mightn’t |
| shall | shan’t |
| should | shouldn’t |
| will | won’t |
| would | wouldn’t |
| Affirmatif | Négatif |
| dare | daren’t |
| must | mustn’t |
| need | needn’t |
| ought | oughtn’t |
| used to | (usedn’t to) |