gon – Middle English verb conjugation

Middle English verb forms of gon

Infinitive

gon; to gon; go

Participles

Presentgoynge; gonde
Pastgon; 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

Singulargo
Pluralgoth; 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

  • 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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