Go

Japanese woodblock of Guan Yu playing go while having a wound dressed. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861).

Conjugation

• Present: go(es)
• Past: went
• Participles: gone, going

Semantics

Basic

move from where you are. move elsewhere. Bouge! Joue!

• It's hard to get Margot to go anywhere.
• Go! It's your turn.

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, hunting, skating, drinking, etc.)

• I haven't gone since the lockdown began.

• begone! get thee away from here...
• bygones: stuff that has happened, water under the bridge
• Let bygones be bygones = forgive and forget
• The pain goes away after a while.

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.
• The network has been going down all the time!
• The phone line went dead.
• The alarm went off.

Futur proche

• "I'm gonna' wash that man right outa' my hair". (South Pacific, 1949)

The phonetic reduction Going to --> 'gʌnə only happens when referring to an upcoming action/event/state. (something that will happen soon...)

• I'm going to New Orleans. aɪm 'goʊɪŋ tə nʊ^wɔːr lɪnz

  je vais à la Nouvelle Orléans.

• I'm going to go to New Orleans. aɪm 'gʌnə 'goʊ tə nʊ^wɔːr lɪnz

  je vais aller à la Nouvelle Orléans.