Meaning

1 senses

  1. (also, auxiliary, dialectal, slang)Future modal indicating intent.

Origin

Elision of trying to. Chiefly AAVE, though also a natural realization of trying to in many

Elision of trying to. Chiefly AAVE, though also a natural realization of trying to in many other dialects. Cf. finna, gonna.

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Forms

trynas, trynaing, trynaed, trynaed
Base formtryna · to tryna
3rd person singulartrynas
Present participletrynaing
Past simpletrynaed
Past participletrynaed

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytryna
he, she, ittrynas

Past simpleLesson

all personstrynaed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave trynaed
he, she, ithas trynaed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tryna

Word family

4 related words
Relatedfinnagonnawannagotta

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
truthfullytryA2tryouttsartsunamitsundere

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