I came across this in a manga, and I still can't figure out what the ちゃいない
means. Does any help please?
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meaning colloquial-language contractions casual
What does 「見ちゃいない」mean?
I am sure that you will sometimes find the expression 見ちゃいない in a manga,
because this expression is very colloquial and used in daily conversation. I
think the following expressions can arranged in the order of formality.
見てはいない、見ていない、見てない、見ちゃいない。
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It's almost certainly a contraction of 見てはいない ("[someone] is not seeing it" or
"[someone] has not seen it"). It can also be a contraction of 見てしまいなさい ("Watch
it anyway!") at least in one western dialect I know, but it's rare.

In casual speech, ては very often contracts to ちゃ (and では contracts to じゃ). See
[Purpose of adj+kucha and noun+ja in this
sentence](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/57943/5010) for example.
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