go to work

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

go to work (third-person singular simple present goes to work, present participle going to work, simple past went to work, past participle gone to work)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ to,‎ work. (This sense is a translation hub.)
2. To begin performing some task or work.
3. To go to one's job, as by commuting.
4. (idiomatic) To beat up, to batter.

   I saw Bruno go to work on Big Timmy; when he was through he didn't have much of a face left.

5. (idiomatic) To go to town.

Translations

go to work

• Armenian: գործի գնալ (gorci gnal)
• Catalan: anar a la feina
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 上班 (soeng⁵ baan¹), 出勤 (ceot¹ kan⁴)

  Hokkien: 上班 (zh-min-nan) (siōng-pan), 出勤 (zh-min-nan) (chhut-khîn / chhut-khûn)

  Mandarin: 上班 (zh) (shàngbān), 出勤 (zh) (chūqín)

• Finnish: mennä töihin
• Hindi: काम पर जाना (kām par jānā), दफ़्तर जाना (daftar jānā)
• Hungarian: dolgozni megy, munkába megy
• Japanese: 出勤する (ja) (しゅっきんする, shukkin suru)
• Korean: 출근하다 (ko) (chulgeunhada), 쌍발하다 (ssangbalhada) (regional)
• Punjabi: ਕੰਮ ਤੇ ਜਾਣਾ (kamm te jāṇā)
• Russian: идти́ на рабо́ту impf (idtí na rabótu)
• Swedish: åka till jobbet
• Urdu: کام پر جانا (kām par jānā), دفتر جانا (daftar jānā)
• Vietnamese: đi làm (vi)

work — see work

commute — see commute

go to town — see go to town

References

• "to go to work" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA, 1996, 1998.
• “go to work”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.