Correct me please

[Iouri]

Is it correct?
I am going to go - Ik ga gaan
I walk to fight - Ik loop te vechten

And another question. How to determine when ga is:
1. go
2 going to (like I am going to do something)

thank you

[Bert]

Is it correct?
I am going to go - Ik ga gaan

It seems right but you can simply say Ik ga [if you go with other people: Ik ga mee] instead of Ik ga gaan. If you make a promise: Ik zal gaan.

I walk to fight - Ik loop te vechten

Ik loop te vechten means 'I am fighting whilst walking'.

And another question. How to determine when ga is:
1. go
2 going to (like I am going to do something)

thank you

The surrounding text always helps.

[Iouri]

"It seems right but you can simply say Ik ga [if you go with other people: Ik ga mee] instead of Ik ga gaan. If you make a promise: Ik zal gaan."

That is exactly why I asked this question. I don't want to say that I go. I want to say that I am going to go. How to do this






I walk to fight - Ik loop te vechten


Ik loop te vechten means 'I am fighting whilst walking'.

And how to say that I am walking to the fight. Maybe
Ik loop om te vechten


Still my question - how to determin I go from I am going (in terms that I am going to do something)

bedankt

[Bert]

Sorry, I cannot answer your questions. Ngonyama's English is better than mine so he might understand what you want to know, and tell you their Dutch equivalents.

[Iouri]

Thanks, Bert

[BrutallyFrank]

Is it correct?
I am going to go - Ik ga gaan
I walk to fight - Ik loop te vechten

And another question. How to determine when ga is:
1. go
2 going to (like I am going to do something)

thank you

No, it's not correct. Nobody will use 'ik ga gaan'. Even though the combination is correct (ga + verb), people will probably say: "Ik ga weer op weg" (or something similar).

I walk to fight ... is that correct English? I doubt it. But the translation 'Ik loop te vechten' is not wrong, but strange nevertheless. If you would like to say that you're going to a fight, say: 'ik loop naar het gevecht.'

So if it's just 'go', it's in combination with 'naar'.
If it's 'going to', it's 'ga + verb' (ik ga rennen/duiken/vliegen/springen/vallen/etc.)

[Iouri]

Thank you, BrutallyFrank

[Quetzal]

I would add that the "ga gaan" combination is possible, but within the more specific context of going to some event of some kind.

E.g.: "Jan geeft een feestje morgenavond, ga jij gaan?" "Ja, ik denk wel dat ik ga gaan."

And even then it's probably more informal spoken language.

[Iouri]

Does it mean that there is no expression I am going to go in Dutch?

thanx

[ngonyama]

No really, no.

Neither is there: I am coming to come or I am hesitating to hesitate or I am procrastinating to procrastinate.

We do have things like: ik ben van plan te gaan, ik ga maar eens vertrekken, ik sta op het punt te gaan, nu ga ik maar eens etc.