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*gone fishing: ''out'' | *gone fishing: ''out'' | ||
| − | gone + activity (shopping, dancing, running, bowling, riding, swimming, diving, sledding, sand-surfing, skateboarding, skating, etc.) | + | 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. | *I haven't gone since the lockdown began. | ||
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*'''by'''gones: stuff that has happened, water under the bridge | *'''by'''gones: stuff that has happened, water under the bridge | ||
*Let bygones be bygones = forgive and forget | *Let bygones be bygones = forgive and forget | ||
| + | *The pain '''goes away''' after a while. | ||
===Perfective Aspect=== | ===Perfective Aspect=== | ||
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*I'm going to go to New Orleans. <span style="color:#060;">aɪm 'gʌnə 'goʊ tə nʊ'''<sup>w</sup>ɔːr''' lɪnz</span> | *I'm going to go to New Orleans. <span style="color:#060;">aɪm 'gʌnə 'goʊ tə nʊ'''<sup>w</sup>ɔːr''' lɪnz</span> | ||
*:<span style="font-size:75%;font-style:italic;">je vais aller à la Nouvelle Orléans.</span> | *:<span style="font-size:75%;font-style:italic;">je vais aller à la Nouvelle Orléans.</span> | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:09, 2 May 2020
Japanese woodblock of Guan Yu playing go while having a wound dressed. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861).
Contents
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 nʊwɔːr lɪnz
- je vais à la Nouvelle Orléans.
- I'm going to go to New Orleans. aɪm 'gʌnə 'goʊ tə nʊwɔːr lɪnz
- je vais aller à la Nouvelle Orléans.
