Go
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[hide]Conjugation
Present: go(es) Past: went Participles: gone, going
Semantics
Basic
move from where you are. move elsewhere. Bouge!
- It's hard to get Margot to go anywhere.
Absent / on a mission
- gone: absent
- gone missing: concerningly absent
- gone fishing: out
gone + activity (shopping, dancing, running, bowling, riding, swimming, diving, sledding, sand-surfing, skateboarding, skating, etc.)
- I haven't gone since the lockdown began.
- begone! get thee away from here
- bygones: stuff that has happened
- Let bygones be bygones = forgive and forget
Perfective Aspect
- He's gone and said it.
- They've gone and done it. The leaders shut down the world to save us from a virus.
What went awry?
- It's always a good idea to imagine what could go wrong, so that you can adapt.
- You can't go (too far) wrong with ... red wines from the Rhone valley
- Something's gone awry (əˈraɪ) = Something's gone wrong. a- = on, wry = crooked, twisted, sideways, upside down, etc.
- go down (The network has been going down all the time!)
- go dead (The phone line went dead.)
Futur proche
- I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair. (South Pacific, 1949)