different between gonna vs donna

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

1. (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)

1. skirt

Derived terms

• gonnellino
• minigonna

English

Etymology

From Italian donna. Doublet of dame and domina.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?n.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?.n?/

Noun

donna (plural donnas)

1. A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.
   • 1837, Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences (page 65)

     What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones […]

   • 2005, Burton D. Fisher, Mozart's Don Giovanni, page 22

     In Don Giovanni's three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna Anna, the sentimental and spurned Donna Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.

   Synonyms: lady, madam, mistress, noblewoman

   Coordinate term: don

Translations

Anagrams

• Danno, Nando, nonad, nonda

Finnish

Noun

donna

1. (slang) woman

Declension

Anagrams

• nadon

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.na/

Verb

donna

1. third-person singular past historic of donner

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???n???/, /?d???n???/

Adjective

donna

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of donn (“brown”)

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina (“lady, mistress of an estate or household”), from dominus (“master”), from domus (“home”). Doublet of dama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?n.na/
• Hyphenation: dòn?na

Noun

donna f (plural donne)

1. woman

   Antonyms: ragazza, uomo

2. (archaic) lady

   Synonyms: signora, dama

3. wife

   Synonym: moglie

4. (card games) queen

   Synonym: regina

5. actress

   Synonym: attrice

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: donna
• ? Swedish: donna

See also

• bambina
• femmina
• ragazza
• signora

Anagrams

• danno, dannò

Japanese

Romanization

donna

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

donna f (definite singular donnaa, indefinite plural donnaer, definite plural donnaene)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• “donna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

donna ? (oblique plural donnas, nominative singular donna, nominative plural donnas)

1. (Anglo-Norman) lady