• Couldn't

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /ˈkÊŠd.(É™)nt/

    Origin

    en + -could + n't

    Verb

    verb form

    1. could not (negative auxiliary
    Arnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n’t, Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513)
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