gehn
Central Franconian edit
Verb edit
gehn
- (Moselle Franconian / Hunsrückisch) to go
- 1874, Peter Joseph Rottmann, Gedichte in Hunsrücker Mundart, page 3:
- Wer sall meich dann bei die Spielleit fehre, / Wann eich naunder meine Kerl verleere? / Geh, eich wullt, datt Deich der Deiwel hätt?
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German edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
gehn
Hunsrik edit
Alternative forms edit
- keen (Wiesemann spelling system)
Etymology edit
From Middle High German gān, gēn, from Old High German gān, gēn, from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-.[1]
Cognate with German gehen and Luxembourgish goen.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
gehn
- (intransitive) to go
- Die Kinner gehn in die Schul.
- The kids go to the school.
- (intransitive) to walk
- Willst-du gehn odder faare?
- Do you want to go walking or driving?
- (intransitive) to rise (to swell or puff up in the process of fermentation)
- (auxiliary) used to express the future of an action, with an implication of movement
- Ich gehn mich baate. ― I'm gonna take a bath.
- Moie gehn-ich Zeich kaafe. ― I will buy clothes tomorrow.
Conjugation edit
Irregular with past tense and conditional mood | ||||
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infinitive | gehn | |||
participle | gang | |||
auxiliary | sin | |||
present indicative |
past indicative |
conditional | imperative | |
ich | gehn | gingd | gengd | — |
du | gehst | gingst | gengst | geh |
er/sie/es | gehd | gingd | gengd | — |
meer | gehn | gingde | gengde | — |
deer | gehd | gingd | gengd | gehd |
sie | gehn | gingde | gengde | — |
The use of the present participle is uncommon, but can be made with the suffix -end. |
Derived terms edit
verbs
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021), “gehn”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português [Riograndenser Hunsrickisch–Portuguese Dictionary] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 64