not | Lernwerd

Forms

1.Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
- Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
- It was felt desirable that she not leave school before fourteen.
- Not a day passes when I don't regret not having enrolled in medicine.
2.To no degree.
- That is not red; it's green.
- It's not you, it's me.
3.Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement.
- I wonder if I shouldn't see a doctor - I've been feeling funny the last few days.
- In the not too distant future my view on the matter might be not a million miles away from yours.
4.Used before a determiner phrase, a pronominal phrase etc. to convey a negative attitude (e.g. denial, sadness, anger) towards something.
- Oh god, not that! Anything but that!

1.Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.(slang)
- "See?" "Uh-huh! Clear and lucid to the point of limpidity - 'not."
- After Seaworld it was down to Tijuana in Mexico. Charming place - not.
- Because, of course, sympathy is finite -- and if you use it up on the wrong person then you won't have any left. Not.

1.And not.
- I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
- He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
- We can't run this bar without her. Not and raise two kids.

1.An instance of using the word “not”; a negation or denial.
2.Alternative letter-case form of NOT (“unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true”).

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Germanic *ne

Proto-West Germanic *ne

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-

Proto-Indo-European *-u

Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu

Proto-Indo-European *-osinflu.

Proto-Germanic *aiwaz

Proto-West Germanic *aiw univ.

Proto-West Germanic *naiw