shan

«shan» in Mova's school dictionary: «shall not», as in «I shan't go» — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

fragment (shan, from shan't); also Shan — a name

meaning for a pupil

1) A piece of the word «shan't», which means «shall not», as in «I shan't go». It is not a word by itself in English. tree →

2) (a name) The Shan are a people of Myanmar (Burma) and nearby lands, with their own language; Shan State is in Myanmar. tree →

sense in the lessons

«Shan't» (shall + not) is mostly British and old-fashioned, used in old books like Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows: Alice says «I shan't be able!» as she grows tall. Today most people say «won't».

examples

• «I shan't!» shouted the cross little boy. tree →
• «I shan't be able to reach the key,» said Alice. tree →
• We shan't be long — wait here. tree →
• Shan't is short for shall not. tree →
• The Shan people live in the hills of Myanmar. tree →

note

Always written shan't with an apostrophe where the letters «ll no» are left out. «Shan» alone is just a fragment (or a name). Modern English: won't.

In the corpora

• And they put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shan» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.