gehn
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
- IPA(key): /ɡeːn/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eːn
Hunsrik
Alternative forms
- 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
- IPA(key): /keːn/
- Rhymes: -eːn
- Hyphenation: gehn
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
Inflection
| Regular | ||
|---|---|---|
| infinitive | gehe | |
| participle | gang | |
| auxiliary | sin | |
| present indicative |
imperative | |
| ich | gehe | — |
| du | gehst | geh |
| er/sie/es | gehd | — |
| meer | gehe | — |
| deer | gehd | gehd |
| sie | gehe | — |
| The use of the present participle is uncommon, but can be made with the suffix -end. | ||
Derived terms
verbs
- aan jimand gehn
- aanannergehn
- aangehn
- abgehn
- ausgehn
- ausnannergehn
- dodgehn
- dorrichgehn
- fergehn
- forgehn
- fortgehn
- funannergehn
- hemmgehn
- hingehn
- innannergehn
- kaputtgehn
- laamgehn
- losgehn
- mitgehn
- nausgehn
- ningehn
- nohgehn
- rommgehn
- uffgehn
- uffnannergehn
- unnergehn
- wachgehn
- wechgehn
- zugehn
- zurickgehn
References
- Piter Kehoma Boll (2021), “gehn”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português [Riograndenser Hunsrickisch–Portuguese Dictionary] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 64
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