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coulda
English
Etymology
Written form of a reduction of could have.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?d?/, [?k??d.?]
- Rhymes: -?d?
Contraction
coulda
- (chiefly slang) Could have.
- You coulda told him the truth.
Usage notes
Like other similarly formed contractions, speakers only use coulda to replace the modal sense of could have, i.e. where have precedes a past participle: We coulda seen each other. They do not use it to replace could followed by the verb have used lexically, e.g. *We coulda coffee. See also gonna.
Synonyms
- could of
- could've
Derived terms
- woulda, coulda, shoulda
Related terms
- couldna
- shoulda
- woulda
- mighta
- musta
coulda From the web:
gonna
English
Alternative forms
- gon
- gon'
- gunna
- gonner, gunner
Etymology
Written form of a reduction of going to. The pronunciation of present participles with the sound n rather than ng has a long history (see g-dropping on Wikipedia).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /???n.?/, /???n.?/; (unstressed) IPA(key): /??n.?/
- (AAVE) IPA(key): [?õ]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /??n.?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???n.?/
- Homophones: gunner (non-rhotic accents)
Contraction
gonna
- (colloquial, with bare infinitive) Contraction of going to when followed by an infinitive verb: used to express a future action.
- Never gonna give you up, / Never gonna let you down, / Never gonna run around and desert you. / Never gonna make you cry, / Never gonna say goodbye, / Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
Usage notes
- This spelling, like any nonstandard spelling, risks appearing condescending. Even when going to has the pronunciation that gonna denotes, it is usually spelled <going to>.
- Gonna, like the pronunciation it denotes, only occurs when going to is a modal verb indicating a future tense (something that is bound to happen or is planned), and not for lexical uses of "going to" (i.e. the verb go followed by a prepositional phrase beginning with to). Thus, one says, I’m gonna go now, but *I’m gonna the mall is not observed. (In such contexts, I’m going to the mall is said, with going to pronounced more fully, e.g. IPA(key): /??o??? ??/, /??o??n?/.) The same is true of other modal verb contractions such as shoulda, woulda, or coulda (e.g. She shoulda come with us but not *She shoulda some patience).
See also
- to (particle)
- coulda
- gotta
- shoulda
- wanna
- woulda
- I'm 'onna
- I'mma
Anagrams
- angon
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin gunna (“leather garment”). Compare English gown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???n.na/
Noun
gonna f (plural gonne)
- skirt
Derived terms
- gonnellino
- minigonna
gonna From the web:
- what gonna happen in 2021
- what gonna happen on december 21
- what gonna happen in 2022
- what gonna happen in 2020
- what gonna happen january 20 2021
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