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Let's

//lɛts// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Used to form the cohortative of verbs, equivalent of the first-person plural imperative in some other languages.

    "Let’s eat lunch sometime, shall we?"

  2. 2
    Used to form the hortative of verbs, equivalent of the second-person plural imperative in some other languages, chiefly instructional

    "Let’s make sure we don’t forget proper punctuation, let's not let those mistakes happen again."

Etymology

Contraction of let us. Compare non-contracted Dutch laat ons, German lass uns (speaker with one other person) / lasst uns (speaker with more other persons) and Swedish låt oss.

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