gehn

Central Franconian

Verb

gehn

1. (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/

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• Rhymes: -eːn

Verb

gehn

1. (informal, poetic, dated in formal prose) Alternative form of gehen

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-.

Cognate with German gehen and Luxembourgish goen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keːn/
• Rhymes: -eːn
• Hyphenation: gehn

Verb

gehn

1. (intransitive) to go

   Die Kinner gehn in die Schul.

   The kids go to the school.

2. (intransitive) to walk

   Willst-du gehn odder faare?

   Do you want to go walking or driving?

3. (intransitive) to rise (to swell or puff up in the process of fermentation)
4. (auxiliary) used to express the future of an action, with an implication of movement

   Ich gehn mich baate. ― I'm gonna take a bath. i.e. the speaker will walk to the bathroom and bathe there

   Moie gehn-ich Zeich kaafe. ― I will buy clothes tomorrow. i.e. the speaker will leave his home and go to the store

Conjugation

Irregular with past tense and conditional mood
infinitive	gehn
participle	gang
auxiliary	sin
	present indicative	past indicative	conditional	imperative
ich	gehn	gingd	gengd	—
du	gehst	gingst	gengst	geh
er/sie/es	gehd	gingd	gengd	—
meer	gehn	gingde	gengde	—
deer	gehd	gingd	gengd	gehd
sie	gehn	gingde	gengde	—
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

 

See also

• see: werre and dun also used to form the future