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wanna

contractiontop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • //ˈwɑ.nə//
  • //ˈwʌ.nə//
  • //ˈwɔ.nə//
  • //-nuː//

Represents a contracted pronunciation of want to.

contraction

  1. 1

    Represents a contracted pronunciation of want to.

    I wanna go home!

    'Pair of shoes for you at last.' I picked one up. It was weathered, with a split heel and no laces. 'Too big for me,' I said, dropping it back to the floor. 'Wanna look at the Germans, like?' said Ade, standing. 'Proper, like? Come on.[…]

  2. 2

    Represents a contracted pronunciation of want a.

    I wanna puppy!

Etymology

Contractions. Attested as early as 1824.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).