Definitions

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  • Contraction of going to.

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  • phrase with bare infinitive Eye dialect spelling of going to: used to express a future action.

Etymologies

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Written form of a reduction of "going to"

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  • Because 'going to' sounds a bit Chinese.

    June 9, 2009

  • Hardly Jamaican patois: Standard English rather. Everyone normally says some reduced form conventionally written 'gonna'.

    June 9, 2009