different between woulda vs gonna

English

Etymology

Eye dialect form of a reduction of would have.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Contraction

woulda

1. (colloquial) Contraction of would have.

   You woulda told him the truth.

Usage notes

Like other similarly formed contractions, speakers only use woulda to replace the modal sense of would have, i.e. where have precedes a past participle: We woulda come if you'd called. They do not use it to replace would followed by the verb have used lexically, e.g. *We woulda a reason. (We would have a reason would be contracted to We'd have a reason instead.) See also gonna.

Derived terms

• woulda, coulda, shoulda

See also

Category:English contractions

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