went

English

Etymology

Originally the simple past and past participle of wend.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /wɛnt/
(US) IPA^(key): /wɛnt/, [wɛnʔ(t̚)]
(General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /went/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

went

simple past tense of go
(nonstandard) past participle of go
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wend

Derived terms

wentest, wenteth (both archaic)

Noun

went (plural wents)

(obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
- Chaucer
  At a turning of a wente.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
  But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went.

Synonyms

(simple past): gaed, eode, yead, yede, yode
(past participle): gone
(wend): wended

Anagrams

newt

Breton

Noun

went

Soft mutation of gwent.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

went

second- and third-person singular present indicative of wennen
(archaic) plural imperative of wennen

Scots

Verb

went

simple past tense of gan

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