cannot
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈkænɒt/, /kæˈnɒt/
- (America) IPA: /ˈkæ(n.)nɑt/, /ˈkɛ(n.)nɑt/, /kə(n)ˈnɑt/, /kɪ(n)ˈnɑt/
- (Canada) IPA: /kəˈnɑt/
- can#Verb|Can not (be unable to).
- I cannot open the window. It is stuck.
- Be forbidden or not permitted to
- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575 ↗
- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt.
- You cannot enter the hall without a ticket.
- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575 ↗
- French: ne pas pouvoir
- German: nicht können
- Italian: non potere
- Portuguese: não pode
- Russian: не мо́чь
- Spanish: no poder
cannot (plural cannots)
- Something that cannot be done.
- the cans and cannots
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