gonna
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
Written form of a reduction of "going to"
[edit] Pronunciation
- (US) IPA: /ˈɡʌ.nə/
- (Australia) IPA: /ɡə.nə/
- Homophones: gunner (non-rhotic accents)
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[edit] Contraction
gonna
- (with bare infinitive) Eye dialect spelling of going to: used to express a future action.
- 1987, Stock Aitken Waterman (writers), Rick Astley (singer), “Never Gonna Give You Up” (song), in Whenever You Need Somebody (album), RCA Records (label), refrain:
- Never gonna give you up, / Never gonna let you down, / Never gonna run around and desert you. / Never gonna make you cry, / Never gonna say goodbye, / Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
- 1987, Stock Aitken Waterman (writers), Rick Astley (singer), “Never Gonna Give You Up” (song), in Whenever You Need Somebody (album), RCA Records (label), refrain:
[edit] Usage notes
- This spelling, like any eye dialect spelling, risks appearing condescending. Even when going to has the pronunciation that gonna denotes, it is usually spelled <going to>.
- Gonna, like the pronunciation it denotes, only occurs when the sense is roughly “will” or “shall”; hence “I’m gonna go now”, but not *“I’m gonna the mall.”
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[edit] Noun
gonna f. (plural gonne)
