Meaning

1 senses

  1. (auxiliary, colloquial)A modal used to express a future action that is being planned or prepared for in the present.

    I'm gonna hafta find a new job soon.

Examples

910 sentences

  1. That's never gonna happen again, right?

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  2. What am I gonna tell Tom?

    ruЧто я Тому скажу?

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  3. I'm gonna give it a shot.

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  4. Are you gonna help me or what?

    ruТы собираешься мне помочь или как?

    deWirst du mir helfen, oder was?

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  5. Are we gonna talk about this or not?

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Origin

Contraction of going to. Attested since 1913 (OED, "gonna"). The pronunciation of present

Contraction of going to. Attested since 1913 (OED, "gonna"). The pronunciation of present participles with the sound n rather than ng has a long history (see g-dropping on Wikipedia).

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Forms

gonnas, gonnaing, gonnaed, gonnaed
Base formgonna · to gonna
3rd person singulargonnas
Present participlegonnaing
Past simplegonnaed
Past participlegonnaed

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygonna
he, she, itgonnas

Past simpleLesson

all personsgonnaed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gonnaed
he, she, ithas gonnaed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gonna

Word family

5 related words
RelatedtoA1gottawannafinna
Derivedgonnabe

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gonegonergonggoogoodA1
gonna — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto