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.)

   I used to go to school in Bristol in the morning, and then I'd go to work in my hometown in the afternoon.

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.