gehn

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?

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• IPA^(key): /ɡeːn/

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• Rhymes: -eːn

gehn

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

• keen (Wiesemann spelling system)

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-.^[1]

Cognate with German gehen and Luxembourgish goen.

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

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

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