ging
Meaning
first/third-person singular preterite of gehen
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡɪŋ/
New
gehen
- (class-7,intransitive,strong) to go, to walk
- (class-7,intransitive,strong) to leave
- (class-7,intransitive,strong) to leave, to take off (aeroplane, train)
- (class-7,impersonal,intransitive,strong) to be going; to be all right [with dative ‘for someone’ and predicate adjective ‘in a particular way’] (idiomatically translated by English be doing or similar, with the dative object as the subject)
- (class-7,impersonal,intransitive,often,strong) to be possible
- (class-7,colloquial,intransitive,strong) to work, to function (of a machine, method or the like)
- (class-7,colloquial,intransitive,strong) to last, to go for, to go on, to be in progress
- (class-7,strong) to sit, to rise, to expand (of dough etc.)
- (class-7,colloquial,intransitive,strong) to be (on) (to pay)
- (class-7,dated,impersonal,intransitive,regional,strong) to be approaching
- (class-7,strong) to go one's way, to make one's way (of a path, destination), to go separate ways
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Sentences
Dabei ging der moralische Sinngehalt des Emblems verloren .
The moral meaning of the emblem was lost.
Zurück in Frankreich 
, ging sie 👩 mit Jacques Brel und Georges Brassens auf Tournee .
👩
Back in France, she went on tour with Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens.
Bronze ging an die Britin Jenny Meadows.
Bronze went to British Jenny Meadows.
