gonna

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United Kingdom//ɡən.ə//
United States//ˈɡʌn.ə//
United States//ˈɡɔn.ə//
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A modal used to express a future action that is being planned or prepared for in the present.

verb

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A modal used to express a future action that is being planned or prepared for in the present.
I'm gonna hafta find a new job soon.
Well, you ain't got much longer to laugh. I'm coming, and I'm gonna put one in your dirty hide for every lying crack that you made about me, see?
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.

Etymology

Contraction of going to. Attested since 1913 (OED, "gonna"). The pronunciation of present participles with the sound n rather than ng has a long history (see g-dropping on Wikipedia).

goner · Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially…gong · A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits…Gong · Wollongong.

gonna · A modal used to express a future action that is being planned or prepared for in the present.

Gonzalo · A surname from Spanish.goo · Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is…Goo · A surname.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.