Meaning

  1. to go
  2. (auxiliary) forms the periphrastic preterite; see usage notes below for more information
  3. (pronominal, reflexive) to go away, to leave requires a reflexive pronoun according the subject, and the appropriate form of the adverbial pronoun en

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
[əˈna]
Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin andāre, of uncertain origin. Most forms in the present tenses were contaminated by vādere, with the expected first person singular *ano, second person singular *anes, third person singular *ana, and third person singular *anen in the present indicative and their present subjunctive counterparts (*ani, *anis, *ani, and *anin, in the same order), are obsolete due to contamination from vādere, and īre contaminated the future root (and thus the future and conditional), resulting in *anir- instead of *anar-.

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