text: # mayn’t
  
  ## Anglais
  
  ### Étymologie
  
      De l’auxiliaire may et du suffixe flexionnel négatif -n’t.
  
  ### Forme de verbe
  
  mayn’t \ˈmeɪ.ənt\ (Auxiliaire)
  
  * (Archaïsme) Négation de l’auxiliaire may. N’avoir le droit, ne pas pouvoir.
     * I mayn’t have much head, master, but I’ve head enough to remember those that use me ill. — (Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, 1841, chap. 40)
     * “Mulligan’s our Health Officer, and a one-idea man,” said the Mayor, laughing. “But it’s true that most Serviles haven’t much control. They will talk; and when people take to talking as a business, anything may arrive—mayn’t it, De Forest?” — (Rudyard Kipling, As Easy As A.B.C., 1912)
  
  **Synonymes**
  
  * may not
  
  **Apparentés étymologiques**
  
  * -n’t
  
  | Affirmatif | Négatif |
  | - | - |
  | am | (amn’t) |
  | are | aren’t |
  | is | isn’t |
  | was | wasn’t |
  | were | weren’t |
  | — | ain’t |
  | be | (bean’t) |
  | Affirmatif | Négatif |
  | do | don’t |
  | does | doesn’t |
  | did | didn’t |
  | have | haven’t |
  | has | hasn’t |
  | had | hadn’t |
  | Affirmatif | Négatif |
  | can | cannot, can’t |
  | could | couldn’t |
  | may | (mayn’t) |
  | might | mightn’t |
  | shall | shan’t |
  | should | shouldn’t |
  | will | won’t |
  | would | wouldn’t |
  | Affirmatif | Négatif |
  | dare | daren’t |
  | must | mustn’t |
  | need | needn’t |
  | ought | oughtn’t |
  | used to | (usedn’t to) |
  