gaan.
to go, to move from one place to another
Meaning & usage
to go, to move from one place to another
Ik ga naar het strand.
Die auto gaat nergens naartoe.
to leave or depart, to move away
Morgen gaan ze weer.
to lead (in a direction)
Deze weg gaat helemaal naar Limburg.
to proceed (well or poorly)
Dat ging goed.
Hoe gaat het?
Forms the future tense of a verb, similarly to English going to future tense
Het gaat toch niet werken.
to start to, begin to, to be going to
De zon gaat weer schijnen.
Ik ga slapen.
to be about
Dit verhaal gaat over een klein jongetje.
to be the point of, to be about
Daar gaat het niet om!
to be in charge of
Jan gaat over boekhouding, ik niet.
to experience, to take, to feel some way about something
Ik ga heel slecht op dit soort onzin.
Hij gaat altijd wel goed op dit album.
Where this word comes from
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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