Scotland · verb phrase
gonnae
A Scottish form used in requests meaning going to or will you.
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What gonnae means
Gonnae is used in Scottish speech in forms such as gonnae no and gonnae help us, where it can mean going to, will you, or please do something depending on the sentence.
How it is used
It is especially common in informal requests, complaints, and conversational questions.
- Part of speech
- verb phrase
- Pronunciation
- Often close to /ˈɡɔnə/
- Register
- Informal Scottish English and Scots.
- Variants
- gonny
Examples
Each example is followed by its intended plain-English meaning.
Gonnae give us a hand?
Will you help me?
Gonnae no dae that?
Would you please not do that?
What to watch for
It is not interchangeable with every use of standard English going to; its meaning depends on the full phrase.
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