different between gonna vs nonna

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

Borrowed from Italian nonna. Doublet of nun.

Noun

nonna (plural nonnas)

1. (dialectal) grandmother

Coordinate terms

• nonno (“grandfather”)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay nyonya.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nonna f (plural nonna's, diminutive nonnaatje n)

1. (historical) A (young) woman of mixed Indonesian/Malay and European descent.
2. (historical) A young lady, a miss.

Related terms

• nonnie

Descendants

• Afrikaans: nonna

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin nonna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?n.na/

Noun

nonna f (plural nonne, masculine nonno)

1. grandmother, granny

Derived terms

• bisnonna
• trisnonna

Coordinate terms

• nonno (“grandfather”)

Descendants

• ? English: nonna
• ? Greek: ???? (nóna)
• ? Italiot Greek: nunna
• ? Mòcheno: nu'na

Latin

Etymology

Feminine of nonnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?non.na/, [?n?n?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?non.na/, [?n?n??]

Noun

nonna f (genitive nonnae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. nun

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• nonnus

Descendants

References

• nonna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nonna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• nonna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• nonna in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Late Latin nonna

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?n?nn?/

Noun

nonna f (plural nnonne)

1. grandmother
2. beddy-bye

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nonnen

Noun

nonna m or f

1. definite feminine singular of nonne

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

nonna f

1. definite singular of nonne