The Dutch Grammar Forum

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

Iouri wrote: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.

Iouri wrote:I walk to fight - Ik loop te vechten

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

Iouri wrote: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.

"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

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.

Thanks, Bert

Iouri wrote: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.)

Thank you, BrutallyFrank

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.

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

thanx

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.