Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

went

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads
See also: Went

English

Etymology

Originally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion.

Pronunciation

Verb

went

  1. simple past of go
  2. (nonstandard) past participle of go
    • 1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 7, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church‎, page 22:
      When they arrived whither they were bent, / He made as if he farther would have went. / But they conſtrain'd him, ſaying, Night is near; / Abide with us; and ſo he tarry'd there.
    • 1851, Abel F. Fitch, Report of the Great Conspiracy Case […] ‎, Advertiser and Free Press, page 145:
      I went from Filley's to Fitch's house, to talk of oxen; no one went with me; might have went to the mill; don,t remember whether I rode back to Laycock's or not to dinner.
    • 2010 June 14, Douglas Nix, Al-Qaeda Hunter‎, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 22:
      I just sat around and watched, then decided to go see Safid; we planned to study that day, but first we had a good ride around town. We must have went fifteen miles, and Safid was ready to sit and study; we went to a little park and started working.
  3. (archaic) simple past and past participle of wend

Derived terms

Noun

went (plural wents)

  1. (obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.

Synonyms

Anagrams

Remove ads

Breton

Noun

went

  1. soft mutation of gwent

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

went

  1. inflection of wennen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

Old English

Pronunciation

Verb

went

  1. third-person singular present indicative of wendan

Scots

Verb

went

  1. simple past tense of gan

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads
Remove ads