to gonna help
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7.7
- phrasal verb
- /ˈɡʌnə hɛlp/
- Informal
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- Thought you was gonna help out.
What did you guys learn from about your team from this series and how's it gonna help you improve moving on in these playoffs or bipolar
- What did you guys learn from about your team from this series and how's it gonna help you improve moving on in these playoffs or bipolar
- So if if a doctor is gonna help their patient with those other four tools, they're gonna have to learn about it outside of medical training.
- Wait, I'm going to come in a cup, send it to her and she'll turn it into a powder, a sample, and I'm gonna help someone get it in that I don't.
Examples
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Crying isn't gonna help.
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I want Starkey and you're gonna help me get him.
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And you guys are gonna help us fix it.
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You tell me what it is, am I gonna help you fix it?
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Of course I'm gonna help you.
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"Are you gonna help me or what?" I slipped on my boots and got out.
Fiction book (1999) -
I thought you were gonna help me find Toni.
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Even that isn't necessarily gonna help you.
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l'm gonna help you.
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I'm gonna help you with your homework this weekend.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'intend to help' is directly compositional from 'gonna' (informal contraction of 'going to', marking future intention) + 'help' (to assist). This periphrastic future + verb pattern is cross-linguistically common and remains predictable even in the contracted spoken form, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase gonna help is a casual spoken short form of 'going to help', where gonna replaces 'going to' and help keeps its usual meaning. It is used to say someone plans or intends to help soon.