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gehen

Pronunciation: /ˈɡeːən/

“gehen” is a German word. Its 12 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to go, to walk
  2. to leave
  3. to leave, to take off (aeroplane, train)
  4. to be going; to be all right [with dative ‘for someone’ and predicate adjective ‘in a particular way’] (idiomatically translated by English be doing or similar, with the dative object as the subject)
  5. to be possible
  6. to work, to function (of a machine, method or the like)
  7. to last, to go for, to go on, to be in progress
  8. to sit, to rise, to expand (of dough etc.)
  9. to be (on); to be paid for (by)
  10. to be approaching
  11. to go one's way, to make one's way (of a path, destination), to go separate ways
  12. to be hard (on), to be (specifically) exhausting (for)

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- (“to leave”). Cognate with Dutch gaan, Low German gaan, gahn, English go, Swedish and Danish gå, Yiddish גיין (geyn). The form gēn instead of gān is of Bavarian origin, but many dialects of Central and Low German have -e- (from earlier -ei-)…

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