gonnaとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Written form of a reduction of going to. Attested since 1917. The pronunciation of present participles with the sound n rather than ng has a long history (see g-dropping on Wikipedia).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌn.ə/, /ˈɡɔn.ə/; (弱勢) IPA^(key): /ɡən.ə/
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): [ɡõ]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɡən.ə/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡən.ə/
• 韻: -ʌnə, -ɔnə, -ənə
• Homophone: gunner (non-rhotic accents)

短縮形

gonna

1. (colloquial, with bare infinitive) 短縮形 of going to when followed by an infinitive verb: used to express a future action.
   • 1931, Mervyn LeRoy, Little Caesar:

     Well, you ain't got much longer to laugh. I'm coming, and I'm gonna put one in your dirty hide for every lying crack that you made about me, see?

   • 1987, Stock Aitken Waterman (lyrics かつ music), “Never Gonna Give You Up”, in Whenever You Need Somebody, RCA Records, performed by Rick Astley:

     Never gonna give you up, / Never gonna let you down, / Never gonna run around and desert you. / Never gonna make you cry, / Never gonna say goodbye, / Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

使用する際の注意点

• This spelling, like any nonstandard spelling, risks appearing condescending. Even when going to has the pronunciation that gonna denotes, it is usually spelled going to.
• Gonna, like the pronunciation it denotes, only occurs when going to is a modal verb indicating a future tense (something that is bound to happen または is planned), and not for lexical uses of "going to" (i.e. the verb go followed by a prepositional phrase beginning with to). Thus, one says, I’m gonna go now, but *I’m gonna the mall is not observed. (In such contexts, I’m going to the mall is said, with going to pronounced more fully, e.g. IPA^(key): [ˈɡoʊɪŋ tə], [ˈɡoʊɪnə].) The same is true of other modal verb contractions such as shoulda, woulda, or coulda (e.g. She shoulda come with us but not *She shoulda some patience).

派生語

• gonnabe

参考

アナグラム

• angon