Infinitive
gon; to gon; go
Participles
| Present | goynge; gonde |
| Past | gon; go; ygon; ygo |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | go |
| 2nd sing. | gost; gest |
| 3rd sing. | goth; geth |
| 1st plur. | gon; go; goth |
| 2nd plur. | gon; go; goth |
| 3rd plur. | gon; go; goth |
Past
| 1st sing. | yede; wente |
| 2nd sing. | yedest; wentest |
| 3rd sing. | yede; wente |
| 1st plur. | yeden; yede; wenten; wente |
| 2nd plur. | yeden; yede; wenten; wente |
| 3rd plur. | yeden; yede; wenten; wente |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | go |
| 2nd sing. | go |
| 3rd sing. | go |
Past
| 1st sing. | yede; wente |
| 2nd sing. | yede; wente |
| 3rd sing. | yede; wente |
Imperative
| Singular | go |
| Plural | goth; go |
Verbs conjugated like gon
gon,
Etymology
1. From Old English gān, from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, compare German gehen. Past tense supplied by Old English wendan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną, or a suppletive stem yed-, yod-, from Old English ēod-.
2. For the spelling geen in the representation of Northern Middle English in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale, see hom (“home”). See: Proto-Germanic '
*gāną', German, old spelling '
gehen', Old English '
wendan', Proto-Germanic '
*wandijaną'.
Verbs referencing "gon"
English
go.
Sample Sentences
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Heuy chered I yede. and elenge in herte / I ne wıſte wher to ete. ne at what place (I travelled grave-faced and with a gloomy heart; / I didn't know where or at what point to eat.) [c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus .xx᷒. ⁊ prım᷒ de Dobeſt”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 124, recto; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:]
Cognates
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