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I was watching an episode of One Piece, and while studying the transcript, I
came across this sentence.

```

    ルフィに　会いてえんなら俺が　教えてやるよ
    
```

Ace told the other pirates "If ya wanna meet Luffy, I'll tell ya where he is".
In the word 会いてえん, what does the えん part mean? Is it some sort of grammar
construct? Is it commonly used in colloquial Japanese? Thanks guys!
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conjugations て-form
Meaning of て form + えん
The ～え is the casual form of elongating イ-adjectives into ～え. So in this case
it is really `会いたい` getting changed into `会いてえ`. There may be another topic
here about this form, but I can't find it.

The ～ん is just the abbreviated ～の nominalizer. The same as ～んです.
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