| 释义 |
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -'s suffix - forming the possessive singular of nouns and some pronouns: man's, one's
- forming the possessive plural of nouns whose plurals do not end in -s: children's
- forming the plural of numbers, letters, or symbols: 20's, p's and q's
- informal contraction of is or has: he's here, John's coming, it's gone
- informal contraction of us with let: let's
- informal contraction of does in some questions: where's he live?, what's he do?
Etymology: senses 1, 2: assimilated contraction from Middle English -es, from Old English, masculine and neuter genitive singular; sense 3, equivalent to -s1 |