gan

The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".

2011, Chris Dockerty, Ramblings of a Geordie:

en-verb

gan (third-person singular simple present gans, present participle gannin, simple past went or gan, past participle gone)

gans (present singular third-person)
gannin (participle present)
went (past)
gan (past)
gone (participle past)

Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”).


gan

head

gan (plus nominative, triggers no mutation in specific references but lenition in general references)

From Old Irish cen (“besides; without”), from Proto-Celtic *kina (“on this side of”); compare Middle Welsh am-gen (“otherwise”), Breton ken (“otherwise”).


gan

(Early Middle English, Northern) Alternative form of gon (“to go”)


gan

gmh-verb

gān (irregular, third-person singular present gāt, past tense gienc, past participle gegān or gegangen, past subjunctive gienge, auxiliary sīn)

gān (canonical)
gāt (present singular third-person)
gienc (past)
gegān (participle past)
gegangen (participle past)
gienge (past subjunctive)
sīn (auxiliary)
sīn (auxiliary)
gān (infinitive)
gānnes
gānes
gānne
gāne
gānde (participle present)
gegān (participle past)
gegangen (participle past)
ich gān (indicative present singular)
wir gān (indicative plural present)
ich gē (singular subjunctive)
wir gēn (plural subjunctive)
du gāst (indicative present singular)
ir gāt (indicative plural present)
du gēst (singular subjunctive)
ir gēt (plural subjunctive)
ër gāt (indicative present singular)
sie gānt (indicative plural present)
ër gē (singular subjunctive)
sie gēn (plural subjunctive)
ich gienc (indicative preterite singular)
wir giengen (indicative plural preterite)
ich gienge (singular subjunctive)
wir giengen (plural subjunctive)
du gienge (indicative preterite singular)
ir gienget (indicative plural preterite)
du giengest (singular subjunctive)
ir gienget (plural subjunctive)
ër gienc (indicative preterite singular)
sie giengen (indicative plural preterite)
ër gienge (singular subjunctive)
sie giengen (plural subjunctive)
gā (du) (imperative singular)
gāt (ir) (imperative plural)
sīn (auxiliary)
ich bin gegān (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
ich bin gegangen (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
wir birn gegān (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
wir birn gegangen (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
ich sī gegān (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
ich sī gegangen (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
wir sīn gegān (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
wir sīn gegangen (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
du bist gegān (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
du bist gegangen (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
ir birt gegān (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
ir birt gegangen (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
du sīst gegān (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
du sīst gegangen (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
ir sīt gegān (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
ir sīt gegangen (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
ër ist gegān (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
ër ist gegangen (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
sie sint gegān (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
sie sint gegangen (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
ër sī gegān (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
ër sī gegangen (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
sie sīn gegān (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
sie sīn gegangen (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
ich was gegān (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
ich was gegangen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
wir wāren gegān (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
wir wāren gegangen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
ich wære gegān (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
ich wære gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
wir wæren gegān (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
wir wæren gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
du wære gegān (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
du wære gegangen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
ir wāret gegān (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
ir wāret gegangen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
du wærest gegān (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
du wærest gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
ir wæret gegān (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
ir wæret gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
ër was gegān (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
ër was gegangen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
sie wāren gegān (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
sie wāren gegangen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
ër wære gegān (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
ër wære gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
sie wæren gegān (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
sie wæren gegangen (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
gān süln (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
ich sul gān (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
wir suln gān (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
du sule gān (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ir sulet gān (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ër sul gān (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
sie suln gān (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ich sol gān (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
wir sulen gān (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
ich sölte gān (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ich sölde gān (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wir sölten gān (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wir sölden gān (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
du solt gān (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
ir sulet gān (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
du söltest gān (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
du söldest gān (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ir söltet gān (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ir söldet gān (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ër sol gān (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
sie sulen gān (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
ër sölte gān (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ër sölde gān (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
sie sölten gān (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
sie sölden gān (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
gegān sīn süln (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
gegangen sīn süln (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
ich sul gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ich sul gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
wir suln gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
wir suln gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
du sule gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
du sule gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ir sulet gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ir sulet gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ër sul gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ër sul gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
sie suln gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
sie suln gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ich sol gegān sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
ich sol gegangen sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
wir sulen gegān sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
wir sulen gegangen sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
ich sölte gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ich sölte gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ich sölde gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ich sölde gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wir sölten gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wir sölten gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wir sölden gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wir sölden gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
du solt gegān sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
du solt gegangen sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
ir sulet gegān sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
ir sulet gegangen sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
du söltest gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
du söltest gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
du söldest gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
du söldest gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ir söltet gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ir söltet gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ir söldet gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ir söldet gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ër sol gegān sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
ër sol gegangen sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
sie sulen gegān sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
sie sulen gegangen sīn (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
ër sölte gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ër sölte gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ër sölde gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ër sölde gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
sie sölten gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
sie sölten gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
sie sölden gegān sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
sie sölden gegangen sīn (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)

desc

Alemannic German: gaa, gan, ge, gi, goo, gu

Swabian: gau, geha

Bavarian: geh, gea, gean, gian

Cimbrian: gian, ghéenan (Sette Comuni)

Northern Bavarian: [ɡ̊ɛi]

Central Franconian: giehn, gohn (northeastern Moselle Franconian), john, jonn (Ripuarian)

Hunsrik: gehn, keen

Luxembourgish: goen

East Central German: gii, giin (Erzgebirgisch)

Upper Saxon German:

Vilamovian: gejn

East Franconian:

German: gehen

Rhine Franconian: geh, gehe, gäh, gähe, gäj, gäje, gih, gihe, gej, geje

Frankfurterisch: [g̥ε̃ː]

Pennsylvania German: geh

Yiddish: גיין (geyn)

Inherited from Old High German gān, gēn, from Proto-West Germanic *gān.


gan

Vietnamese: gan

From Proto-Vietic *t-kaːn, from Old Chinese 肝 (OC *s.kˤa[r]).


gan

to fuck, to breed, to have sexual intercourse, to copulate

Cognate with Central Kurdish and Southern Kurdish گان (gan), Gurani گای (gai), Zazaki gaene, gainaene, Persian گاییدن, Middle Persian [Term?] (/gādan/).
In some dialects it's the animal equivalent of tê niyan (“to fuck; lit. "to put in, insert"”) or a meaner way of saying "fuck" by insinuating the person cursed at is an animal. That considered, the actual sense may have been "to breed" and derived from ga (“ox; bull; stud; any male cattle”).
In some dialects and derived terms it's used only for homosexual acts or prostitution.


gan

Èmì mi li gan èmì u.

U ge gan kpáátá.

It's the best. (literally, “It is good surpassing all”)

Gànsìkiya ligwa gankò.

The truth washes the hands more than soap.


gan

gān (canonical)
gān (infinitive)
gā (first-person present singular)
gān (first-person present singular)
gienc (first-person past singular)
gēs (present second-person singular)
gēst (present second-person singular)
giengi (past second-person singular)
giengis (past second-person singular)
gēt (present singular third-person)
gienc (past singular third-person)
gān (first-person plural present)
giengun (first-person past plural)
gāt (plural present second-person)
giengut (past plural second-person)
gānt (plural present third-person)
giengun (past plural third-person)
giengi (first-person past singular)
gās (present second-person singular)
gāst (present second-person singular)
gā (present singular third-person)
giengi (past singular third-person)
giengin (first-person past plural)
giengit (past plural second-person)
gān (plural present third-person)
giengin (past plural third-person)
gā (present singular)
gāt (plural present)
participle (plural)
gāndi (present)
gigān (past)
gigangan (past)

desctree

Middle Dutch: gâen
Dutch: gaan
Afrikaans: gaan
Javindo: ha, haat
Jersey Dutch: xân, xâne
Petjo: gaan, haan
Limburgish: gaon


gan

c. 990, Wessex Gospels, "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 21, verse 3

Then said Simon Peter to them. I want to go fishing. Then they said to him, and we want to go with you. And they went out and went in a ship, and caught nothing in the night.

Ðā cwæð Simon Petrus tō him, Ic wylle gān on fixað. Þā cwǣdon hī tō him, And wē wyllað gān mid þē. And hī ēodon ūt, and ēodon on scip, and ne fēngon nān þing on þǣre nihte.

late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
...hē wolde gān ūt of ðām porte...

late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
...swā hwǣr swā hē ēode and hī ealle āstōdon ansunde ætforan him þe on ðām fænne ǣr lagon.

...wheresoever he went, and they all rose up sound before him, who aforetime lay in the mire.

late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
...and hē lēop sona cunniġende his fēðes hwæðer hē cūðe gān.

and he leapt up immediately, trying his power of motion, whether he could walk.

late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Sē wer meahte unēaðe þurh hine selfne ārīsan oþþe gān.

The man could barely get up or walk by himself.

c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 6:66

After that, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

Siþþan maniġe his leornungcneohta ċierdon onbæc and lenġ ne ēodon mid him.

c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 24:38-39

In the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they didn't know until the flood came and took them all.

On þǣm dagum ǣr þǣm flōde wǣron menn etende and drincende, and wīfiġende and ġifte sellende, ōþ þone dæġ þe Nōe on þā earċe ēode, and hīe nysson ǣr sē flōd cōm and nam hīe ealle.

gān (canonical)
gān (infinitive)
gānne (infinitive)
gā (first-person present singular)
ēode (first-person past singular)
gǣst (present second-person singular)
ēodest (past second-person singular)
gǣþ (present singular third-person)
ēode (past singular third-person)
gāþ (plural present)
ēodon (past plural)
gā (present singular)
ēode (past singular)
gān (plural present)
ēoden (past plural)
gā (imperative past present singular)
gāþ (imperative past plural present)
gānde (imperative present)
gān (imperative past)
ġegān (imperative past)

Middle English: gon, gan, ga, goo, goon, go
English: go
Geordie English: gan
Middle Scots: go, goe, gone
Scots: gan, gae, ga, gang
Yola: goe, gow, go, goeth (influnced by Irish silent -th)

From Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”). The verb was defective in Germanic and may only have existed in the present tense.


gan

gān (canonical)
gān (infinitive)
gā (first-person present singular)
geng (first-person past singular)
gēst (present second-person singular)
gengest (past second-person singular)
gēth (present singular third-person)
geng (past singular third-person)
gāth (plural present)
gengun (past plural)
gāe (present singular)
genge (past singular)
gāe (plural present)
gāen (plural present)
genge (past plural)
gengen (past plural)
gā (present singular)
gānde (present)
gangande (present)
egangen (past)
gangen (past)

desc

Saterland Frisian: geen (simple past, past participle of gunge)

West Frisian: gean


gan

Middle High German: gān

Alemannic German: go, gon

Central Franconian: jonn, john, gohn


gan

gān (canonical)
gān (infinitive)
gā (first-person present singular)
gēng (first-person past singular)
gēs (present second-person singular)
gēngi (past second-person singular)
gēd (present singular third-person)
gēng (past singular third-person)
gād (plural present)
gēngun (past plural)
gāe (first-person present singular)
gēngi (first-person past singular)
gāes (present second-person singular)
gēngis (past second-person singular)
gāe (present singular third-person)
gēngi (past singular third-person)
gāen (plural present)
gēngin (past plural)
gā (present singular)
gāndi (present)
gigangan (past)
gangan (past)

Middle Low German: gân

Dutch Low Saxon: gan, gaon

German Low German: gahn

Plautdietsch: gone


gan

head

gan (third-person singular simple present gans, present participle gan, simple past went or wett, past participle been)

gans (present singular third-person)
gan (participle present)
went (past)
wett (past)
been (participle past)

From Northern Middle English gan, from Old English gān (“to go”). Past tense supplied by Old English wenden (“to wend”).


gan

A bheil sibh gan creidsinn?


gan

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Gan.


gan

gan (definite accusative gany, plural ganlar)

gany (accusative definite)
ganlar (plural)
gan (nominative singular)
ganlar (nominative plural)
gany (accusative singular)
ganlary (accusative plural)
ganyň (genitive singular)
ganlaryň (genitive plural)
gana (dative singular)
ganlara (dative plural)
ganda (locative singular)
ganlarda (locative plural)
gandan (ablative singular)
ganlardan (ablative plural)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kān (“blood”). Cognate with Turkish kan.


gan

to gan

nhát gan / gan thỏ đế

LL-Q9199 (vie)-Jessica Nguyen (Pamputt)-gan.wav

From Proto-Vietic *t-kaːn, from Old Chinese 肝 (OC *s.kˤa[r]) (SV: can). Attested as gan in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651). Cognate with Chut [Rục] təkaːn¹ ("bold").
Displaced native lòm, now only found in the compounds đỏ lòm and chua lòm.


gan

gans (nominative plural)
gan (nominative singular)
gans (nominative plural)
gana (genitive singular)
ganas (genitive plural)
gane (dative singular)
ganes (dative plural)
gani (accusative singular)
ganis (accusative plural)
o gan! (singular vocative)
o gans! (plural vocative)
ganu (predicative singular)
ganus (plural predicative)


gan

Mae gen i wallt hir.

(North Wales) used with bod to indicate possession

Cafodd y car ei ddwyn gan ddau llanc.

King, Gareth (1993) Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars), London and New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 131:
Aeth o gwmpas y stafell gan ofyn yr un cwestiwn i bawb.
He went around the room [while] asking everyone the same question.

used with verbal noun to indicate an action simultaneous with that of the main verb, while, whilst

gennyf (first-person singular)
gennym (first-person plural)
gennyt (second-person singular)
gennych (plural second-person)
ganddo m (singular third-person)
ganddi f (singular third-person)
ganddynt (plural third-person)
gen i (first-person singular)
gin i (first-person singular)
gennyn ni (first-person plural)
ganddon ni (first-person plural)
gynnon ni (first-person plural)
gen ti (second-person singular)
gin ti (second-person singular)
gennych chi (plural second-person)
ganddoch chi (plural second-person)
gynnoch chi (plural second-person)
ganddo fe (singular third-person)
fo (singular third-person)
gynno fo m (singular third-person)
ganddi hi (singular third-person)
gynni hi f (singular third-person)
gennyn nhw (plural third-person)
ganddyn nhw (plural third-person)
gynnyn nhw (plural third-person)

From Middle Welsh cant, from Old Welsh cant, from Proto-Celtic *kanta. Cognate with Breton gant and Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “against; downwards”).


gan

ọ̀tá mí gàn mí

(transitive) to disparage, criticize, belittle


gan

kankéré ti gan

(intransitive) to become stiff, to harden


gan

àgbẹ́ gán' igbó

(transitive) to stub, to clear (plants or a forest)


gan

mo ń gán owó lò


gan

mo ń gán owó lò

to hit something with a thrown or spun object


gan

mo gán etí aṣọ pọ̀


gan

mo fọwọ́ gán bọ́ọ̀lù náà pákó

I used my hand to snatch the ball swiftly from the air

to snatch something in the air, especially with one hand