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Meaning of "went" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WENT

went  [wɛnt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Went is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb went in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO WENT

PRESENT

Present
I go
you go
he/she/it goes
we go
you go
they go
Present continuous
I am going
you are going
he/she/it is going
we are going
you are going
they are going
Present perfect
I have gone
you have gone
he/she/it has gone
we have gone
you have gone
they have gone
Present perfect continuous
I have been going
you have been going
he/she/it has been going
we have been going
you have been going
they have been going
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I went
you went
he/she/it went
we went
you went
they went
Past continuous
I was going
you were going
he/she/it was going
we were going
you were going
they were going
Past perfect
I had gone
you had gone
he/she/it had gone
we had gone
you had gone
they had gone
Past perfect continuous
I had been going
you had been going
he/she/it had been going
we had been going
you had been going
they had been going
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will go
you will go
he/she/it will go
we will go
you will go
they will go
Future continuous
I will be going
you will be going
he/she/it will be going
we will be going
you will be going
they will be going
Future perfect
I will have gone
you will have gone
he/she/it will have gone
we will have gone
you will have gone
they will have gone
Future perfect continuous
I will have been going
you will have been going
he/she/it will have been going
we will have been going
you will have been going
they will have been going
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would went
you would went
he/she/it would went
we would went
you would went
they would went
Conditional continuous
I would be going
you would be going
he/she/it would be going
we would be going
you would be going
they would be going
Conditional perfect
I would have went
you would have went
he/she/it would have went
we would have went
you would have went
they would have went
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been going
you would have been going
he/she/it would have been going
we would have been going
you would have been going
they would have been going
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you go
we let´s go
you go
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to go
Past participle
gone
Present Participle
going
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WENT


bent
bɛnt
Brent
brɛnt
cement
sɪˈmɛnt
cent
sɛnt
comment
ˈkɒmɛnt
consent
kənˈsɛnt
content
ˈkɒntɛnt
dent
dɛnt
event
ɪˈvɛnt
extent
ɪkˈstɛnt
intent
ɪnˈtɛnt
kent
kɛnt
meant
mɛnt
prevent
prɪˈvɛnt
rent
rɛnt
represent
ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt
sent
sɛnt
spent
spɛnt
tent
tɛnt
vent
vɛnt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WENT

wen
Wen-chou
wena
Wenceslaus
wench
wencher
Wenchow
wend
wendigo
Wendish
Wendy house
wenge
wennish
wenny
wensleydale
wentletrap
Wentworth
Wentworth scale
Wenzhou
wept

WORDS THAT END LIKE WENT

accident
adolescent
advertisement
agent
agreement
apartment
assessment
client
component
current
department
development
different
document
efficient
element
employment
engagement
entertainment
environment

Synonyms and antonyms of went in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «went» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of went
advance · attempt · become · belong · bid · blend · brio · cease · check out · chime · connect · correspond · crack · croak · decamp · depart · develop · die · disappear · drive · effort · elapse · end · energy · essay · expire · extend · fare · finish · fit · flow · force · function · get · get-up-and-go · give up the ghost · harmonize · help · journey · kick the bucket · lapse · lead · leave · life · make tracks · match · move · move out · oomph · operate · pan out · pass · peal · peg out · pep · perform · perish · proceed · reach · repair · ring · roll up · run · serve · set off · shot · snuff it · sound · span · spell · spirit · spread · stab · stint · stretch · suit · tend · toll · travel · try · turn · turn out · vanish · verve · vigour · vitality · vivacity · welly · whack · whirl · withdraw · work · work out

Translation of «went» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WENT

Find out the translation of went to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of went from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «went» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

se fue
570 millions of speakers

English

went
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चला गया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ذهب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пошел
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fui
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গিয়েছিলাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

est allé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pergi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ging
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

行きました
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

갔다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tindak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சென்றார்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गेला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gitti
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

è andato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poszedł
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пішов
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

s-au
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πήγε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

het
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gick
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gikk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of went

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WENT»

The term «went» is very widely used and occupies the 1.899 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «went» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «went» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about went

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10 QUOTES WITH «WENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word went.
1
Karen Armstrong
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
2
George Ayittey
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
3
Alan Ball
I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.
4
Troian Bellisario
I was a 2-year-old baby on something, but it's not like I had lines. But I actually had my first lines when I was 4. And then I finished school, and I went to USC for their BFA program in acting.
5
David Boreanaz
I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.
6
Ed Bradley
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
7
Jimmy Breslin
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
8
Gerard Butler
Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.
9
Anna Camp
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.
10
Linda Cardellini
I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WENT»

Discover the use of went in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to went and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti ...
An assessment of how Haiti has fared after the 2010 earthquake reveals how the country continues to suffer from poverty, illness, and a broken infrastructure, assessing the factors that prevent aid from reaching people in need.
Jonathan M. Katz, 2013
2
What Went Wrong?: Case Studies of Process Plant Disasters
Case histories illustrate what went wrong and why it went wrong, and then guide you in how to circumvent similar tragedies. * Learn from the mistakes of others with this important book! * Examines the causes and aftermaths of numerous plant ...
Trevor Kletz, 1998
3
Where She Went
The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed If I Stay Picking up several years after the dramatic conclusion of If I Stay, Where She Went continues the story of Adam and Mia, from Adam's point of ...
Gayle Forman, 2011
4
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
This timeless fable has been a classic since its first publication in 1930, and this beautifully reillustrated edition brings the magic and wonder of the tale to a new generation of readers.
Elizabeth Coatsworth, 2012
5
We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar ...
Contents: Foreword; Introduction; How this book came to be written; Elements of Rocket Propulsion; U.S. Government Experience in Secret Operations; the Search for Apollo Secrets; the Apollo Project as Political Expediency; Steps to ...
Bill Kaysing, Randy Reid, 1997
6
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, ...
The author uses marriage to examine the social history of New Mexico between 1500 and 1846
Ramón A. Gutiérrez, 1991
7
Where Willy Went
A little knowledge is a wonderful thing, and as the rest of the facts of life fall into place, Allan’s readers will look back on this book with a mixture of fondness and wry amusement.” —The Guardian (UK)
Nicholas Allan, 2011
8
The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in ...
This book will also be of interest to the historian and general reader, who will discover that advances in technology have had little impact on this kind of war, and that many of the same tactics the British Army used on the Northwest ...
Lester W. Grau, 1996
9
When I Went to the Library: Writers Celebrate Books and Reading
Featuring contributions from Paul Yee, Ken Roberts, and Sarah Ellis, a wonderful collection of stories brings to life the richly textured traditions of the library, from a boy who finds solace in the library to safeguard himself against the ...
Debora Pearson, Michele Landsberg, 2001
10
What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
In this intriguing volume, Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed--how they had been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West.
Bernard Lewis, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term went is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How Changing Attitudes Went Along With a Drop in Calories
Fifteen years ago, in July 2000, a Newsweek cover depicted an overweight boy clutching a giant, melting ice cream cone. “Fat for Life?” read the headline. «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
When Bob Dylan Went Electric
By year's end, the Beatles responded with “Rubber Soul,” and Mr. Dylan's influence went viral. After 1965, the Beatles, Brian Wilson, Paul Simon, the Rolling ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
The homeless man who went to Harvard Law with John Roberts
The judge settled his gaze on the homeless man accused of sleeping beside an office building in downtown Washington. It was a Saturday afternoon in early ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
4
When America's Librarians Went To War
Looking back at the nationwide support for American troops in the two world wars, we see Americans of all stripes making patriotic contributions and sacrifices ... «NPR, Jul 15»
5
Special Report: How Greece went bust
As endless meetings came and went, both sides refused to give much ground. Tsipras ratcheted up the rhetoric, accusing Greece's creditors of "five years of ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
6
Greece: What Went Wrong?
Greece is in a depression. It may end up leaving the eurozone. How did it get into this position? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer. «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
7
A French DJ Went Down to Georgia …
The biggest celebrities have seen Sebastien Perrin work, but they may not be able to tell you his name. He is at once prominent and obscure. When he is at his ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
8
What went wrong at Gap? One of the ugliest dresses ever was a clue
Sometime in the last two months, I walked into a Gap store and spotted one of the ugliest dresses I'd ever seen. It was a sleeveless style in a washed-out ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»
9
Song Premiere: Lucero, 'Went Looking For Warren Zevon's Los …
Sometimes it takes a lot of freeway rambling to wind up back where you started. Ben Nichols and his bandmates in Lucero have been touring the indie rock ... «NPR, Jun 15»
10
Foals announce new album, What Went Down
That changes this August, however, when then the UK indie rockers finally return with their new album, What Went Down. The 10-track effort, due out on August ... «Consequence of Sound, Jun 15»

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