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Central Franconian
Verb
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?- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
German
Pronunciation
Verb
gehn
- (informal, poetic, dated in formal prose) Alternative form of gehen
Hunsrik
- keen (Wiesemann spelling system)
Etymology
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
Verb
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
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See also
- see: werre and dun also used to form the future
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