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gaan

Pronunciation: [xaːn]

“gaan” is a Dutch word. Its 10 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to go, to move from one place to another
  2. to leave or depart, to move away
  3. to lead (in a direction)
  4. to proceed (well or poorly)
  5. Forms the future tense of a verb, similarly to English going to future tense
  6. to start to, begin to, to be going to
  7. to be about
  8. to be the point of, to be about
  9. to be in charge of
  10. to experience, to take, to feel some way about something

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gâen, from Old Dutch gān, from a fusion of Proto-West Germanic *gān and *gangan, from Proto-Germanic *gāną and *ganganą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-, *ǵʰengʰ-.

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