"tryna" meaning in English

See tryna in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Contraction

IPA: /ˈtɹaɪ(ə)nə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tryna.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -aɪnə Etymology: Written form of a reduction of trying to. The pronunciation of present participles with the sound /n/ rather than /ŋ/ has a long history (see g-dropping on Wikipedia). Etymology templates: {{m|en|trying}} trying, {{m|en|to}} to Head templates: {{head|en|contraction|head=}} tryna, {{en-cont}} tryna
  1. (slang) trying to, intending to Wikipedia link: reduction (linguistics) Tags: contraction, slang Synonyms: trynna, tryinna, try'na, try'n'a Related terms: gonna, wanna, gotta, oughta, Imma
    Sense id: en-tryna-en-contraction-eOczivRy

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for tryna meaning in English (2.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "trying"
      },
      "expansion": "trying",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "to"
      },
      "expansion": "to",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Written form of a reduction of trying to. The pronunciation of present participles with the sound /n/ rather than /ŋ/ has a long history (see g-dropping on Wikipedia).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "tryna",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tryna",
      "name": "en-cont"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, “U.N.I.T.Y.”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah",
          "text": "Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho / Tryna make a sister feel low / You know all of that gots to go",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Adam F featuring MOP (lyrics and music), “Stand Clear”",
          "text": "You get caught in the middle, tryna dribble on my court",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "February 4, 2007, Kelefa Sanneh, “Friends, Feuds, Yelps, Sobs and a Swedish Nightingale”, in New York Times",
          "text": "[…] Mr. Kelly’s verse outshines all the others (“I’m tryna keep it R&B/But these streets is a part of me,” he sings, ascending into falsetto); he gives the chorus a tuneful makeover too.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Stormzy (lyrics and music), “Vossi Bop”",
          "text": "Catch me up in snowin, in my sliders and my shorts\nChicks tryna get my brotha Flips to share his thoughts",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle (lyrics and music), “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max",
          "text": "You're beautiful, but misunderstood\nSo why you tryna be just like the neighborhood?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "trying to, intending to"
      ],
      "id": "en-tryna-en-contraction-eOczivRy",
      "links": [
        [
          "try",
          "try"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) trying to, intending to"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "gonna"
        },
        {
          "word": "wanna"
        },
        {
          "word": "gotta"
        },
        {
          "word": "oughta"
        },
        {
          "word": "Imma"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "trynna"
        },
        {
          "word": "tryinna"
        },
        {
          "word": "try'na"
        },
        {
          "word": "try'n'a"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "contraction",
        "slang"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "reduction (linguistics)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɹaɪ(ə)nə/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪnə"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tryna.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tryna.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tryna.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tryna.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tryna.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tryna"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "trying"
      },
      "expansion": "trying",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "to"
      },
      "expansion": "to",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Written form of a reduction of trying to. The pronunciation of present participles with the sound /n/ rather than /ŋ/ has a long history (see g-dropping on Wikipedia).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "tryna",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tryna",
      "name": "en-cont"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "gonna"
    },
    {
      "word": "wanna"
    },
    {
      "word": "gotta"
    },
    {
      "word": "oughta"
    },
    {
      "word": "Imma"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English contractions",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪnə",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪnə/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, “U.N.I.T.Y.”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah",
          "text": "Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho / Tryna make a sister feel low / You know all of that gots to go",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Adam F featuring MOP (lyrics and music), “Stand Clear”",
          "text": "You get caught in the middle, tryna dribble on my court",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "February 4, 2007, Kelefa Sanneh, “Friends, Feuds, Yelps, Sobs and a Swedish Nightingale”, in New York Times",
          "text": "[…] Mr. Kelly’s verse outshines all the others (“I’m tryna keep it R&B/But these streets is a part of me,” he sings, ascending into falsetto); he gives the chorus a tuneful makeover too.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Stormzy (lyrics and music), “Vossi Bop”",
          "text": "Catch me up in snowin, in my sliders and my shorts\nChicks tryna get my brotha Flips to share his thoughts",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle (lyrics and music), “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max",
          "text": "You're beautiful, but misunderstood\nSo why you tryna be just like the neighborhood?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "trying to, intending to"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "try",
          "try"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) trying to, intending to"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "contraction",
        "slang"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "reduction (linguistics)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɹaɪ(ə)nə/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪnə"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tryna.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tryna.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tryna.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tryna.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tryna.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "trynna"
    },
    {
      "word": "tryinna"
    },
    {
      "word": "try'na"
    },
    {
      "word": "try'n'a"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tryna"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.