Go

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, etc.)

• I haven't gone riding since the lockdown began.

• begone! get thee away from here
• bygones: stuff that has happened
• Let bygones be bygones = forgive and forget

Futur proche

• I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair. (South Pacific, 1949)