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• ə-gō'
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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈɡəʊ/
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• General-American: /əˈɡoʊ/
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• [əˈɡʌo] Dublin
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• ŭ'gō
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• South-Asia: /ˈə.ɡo/
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• South-Asia: [ɐ.ɡoˑ]
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• rhymes with -əʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 G OW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h2u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Proto-Indo-European *ǵheh1-der. Proto-Germanic *gāną Proto-West Germanic *gān Proto-West Germanic *uʀgān Old English āgān Middle English agon English ago From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”), from Old English āgān (“to go away, pass away, go forth, come to pass”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to a- + gone, and by surface analysis, a- + go. Cognate with German ergehen (“to come to pass, fare, go forth”). Compare also Old Saxon āgangan (“to go or pass by”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (usgaggan, “to go forth”).

96 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: parë — past; gone by; since
• Arabic: قَبْلَ (qabla) — past; gone by; since
• Arabic: من (men) — past; gone by; since
• Armenian: առաջ (aṙaǰ) — past; gone by; since
• Asturian: hai — past; gone by; since
• Azerbaijani: əvvəl — past; gone by; since
• Azerbaijani: qabaq — past; gone by; since
• Azerbaijani: bundan əvvəl — past; gone by; since
• Azerbaijani: bundan qabaq — past; gone by; since
• Bashkir: элек (elek) — past; gone by; since
• Basque: orain dela, duela — past; gone by; since
• Belarusian: таму́ (tamú) — past; gone by; since
• Bulgarian: преди́ (predí) — past; gone by; since
• Catalan: fa — past; gone by; since
• Chinese Cantonese: 之前 (zi1 cin4) — past; gone by; since
• Chinese Mandarin: 以前 (yǐqián) — past; gone by; since
• Chinese Mandarin: 之前 (zhīqián) — past; gone by; since
• Cornish: nans yw — past; gone by; since
• Czech: před — past; gone by; since
• Danish: for ... siden — past; gone by; since
• Dutch: geleden — past; gone by; since
• Dutch: terug — past; gone by; since
• Esperanto: antaŭ — past; gone by; since
• Estonian: tagasi — past; gone by; since
• Finnish: sitten — past; gone by; since
• French: il y a — past; gone by; since
• West-Frisian: lyn — past; gone by; since
• Galician: fai — past; gone by; since
• Georgian: წინათ (c̣inat) — past; gone by; since
• German: vor — past; gone by; since
• German: her — past; gone by; since
• Greek: πριν (prin) — past; gone by; since
• Haitian Creole: de sa — past; gone by; since
• Hebrew: לִפְנֵי (lif'néi) — past; gone by; since
• Hindi: पहले (pahle) — past; gone by; since
• Hindi: बहुत पहले (bahut pahle) — past; gone by; since
• Hungarian: -val/-vel ezelőtt (e.g. egy órával ezelőtt: one hour ago) — past; gone by; since
• Icelandic: fyrir — past; gone by; since
• Indonesian: yang lalu — past; gone by; since
• Ingrian: takas — past; gone by; since
• Irish: ó shin — past; gone by; since
• Italian: fa — past; gone by; since
• Japanese: 前 (mae) — past; gone by; since
• Japanese: 以前に (izen ni) — past; gone by; since
• Khmer: មុន (mʊn) — past; gone by; since
• Korean: 전에 (jeone) — past; gone by; since
• Ladino: aze — past; gone by; since
• Ladino: faze — past; gone by; since
• Lao: ສະຣິດ (sa rit) — past; gone by; since
• Latin: abhinc — past; gone by; since
• Latvian: pirms — past; gone by; since
• Malay: lalu — past; gone by; since
• Malay: lepas — past; gone by; since
• Malayalam: മുമ്പ് (mumpŭ) — past; gone by; since
• Maltese: ilu — past; gone by; since
• Mongolian: өмнө (ömnö) — past; gone by; since
• Norwegian Bokmål: for ... siden — past; gone by; since
• Norwegian Nynorsk: for ... sidan — past; gone by; since
• Occitan: a — past; gone by; since
• Old English: for — past; gone by; since
• Persian: پیش (piš) — past; gone by; since
• Persian: قبل (qabl) — past; gone by; since
• Polish: (dawno) temu — past; gone by; since
• Polish: wcześniej — past; gone by; since
• Portuguese: há — past; gone by; since
• Portuguese: atrás — past; gone by; since
• Portuguese: faz — past; gone by; since
• Romanian: înainte cu — past; gone by; since
• Romanian: în urmă — past; gone by; since
• Romanian: acum — past; gone by; since
• Russian: тому́ наза́д (tomú nazád) — past; gone by; since
• Russian: наза́д (nazád) — past; gone by; since
• Scots: syne — past; gone by; since
• Scottish Gaelic: o chionn — past; gone by; since
• Scottish Gaelic: air ais — past; gone by; since
• Serbo-Croatian: при̏је — past; gone by; since
• Serbo-Croatian: пре̏ — past; gone by; since
• Serbo-Croatian: prȉje — past; gone by; since
• Serbo-Croatian: prȅ — past; gone by; since
• Slovak: dozadu — past; gone by; since
• Slovene: pred — past; gone by; since
• Lower Sorbian: pśed — past; gone by; since
• Spanish: hace — past; gone by; since
• Spanish: atrás — past; gone by; since
• Spanish: ha — past; gone by; since
• Swedish: för ... sedan — past; gone by; since
• Thai: แล้ว (lɛ́ɛo) — past; gone by; since
• Thai: ก่อน (gɔ̀ɔn) — past; gone by; since
• Thai: แต่ก่อน (dtɛ̀ɛ-gɔ̀ɔn) — past; gone by; since
• Thai: ที่แล้ว (tîi-lɛ́ɛo) — past; gone by; since
• Tibetan: སྔོན་ལ (sngon la) — past; gone by; since
• Turkish: önce — past; gone by; since
• Ukrainian: тому́ (tomú) — past; gone by; since
• Uzbek: oldin — past; gone by; since
• Vietnamese: trước đây — past; gone by; since
• Welsh: yn ôl — past; gone by; since