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Meaning of cain't | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/keɪnt/

Definitions

Nonstandard form of can't.

Southern-US, alt-of, contraction, nonstandard

Examples

“Stands to reason, the Mexican government, they cain’t persuade any real Mexican priests to travel all the way to Texas. Those hanker after the fleshpots of the big city. So the oney priests they can get to work in land s’far away are Irishmen who cain’t make no livin’ in Ireland, and who cain’t speak a word of Spanish neither, if’n you ask me.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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