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gonna

[ gaw-nuh; unstressed guh-nuh ]

Informal.
  1. going to:

    Are we gonna go soon?



gonna

/ ˈɡɒnə /

verb

  1. going to
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gonna1

A phonetic spelling representing the pronunciation of the phrase in continuous rapid speech
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Example Sentences

"We need Greenland for national security. One way or the other we're gonna get it," he said during his address to the US Congress last week.

From BBC

When you’re a woman, you’re always gonna get asked more about your children than men do, and for me there was a bit of a stutter step because to even begin to talk about something as life-changing, life-affirming and life-shattering as having kids, these are waters that you’ve never navigated before and I’ve gotten horrific comments like, “You’re not gonna talk about your kids, are you?”

But when women do, it’s kind of seen as like, “Oh, well, she’s unf—able now, she has kids, that’s not gonna be for me.”

How far ahead do you visualize what a special is gonna look like?

“While you might want to control everything, you’re not gonna control it here,” Hunter said.

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