to go left
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1.0
- phrasal verb
:
girar a la izquierda
- When you reach the fork in the road, go left towards the park.
- go left at the exit
- go left for 1.2 miles
- go left at First Street
I think that night I went left, you know.
- I think that night I went left, you know.
- But the point is, yes, it can go left and they can go left very fast.
- And we go left into the kitchen.
- We could have a wave function describing the particle going left, and one describing it going right.
- In this quantum maths, we can have a particle that goes left and a particle that goes right.
- This guy goes left lane, sees an opening and then cuts me off.
Examples
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Up to go up, down to go down, left to go left, and right to go right.
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Do we go left here?
Fiction book (2001) -
And we go left into the kitchen.
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And then when you go into that room and then you go left into another room.
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But the point is, yes, it can go left and they can go left very fast.
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So could either go left or it could go right.
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All right, I'm going left.
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Keep going left until you find the loose pipe cover, and enter that pipe.
Blog text (27) -
Half a block later, at the corner of Ninth and Franklin, he went left again, onto Franklin.
Fiction book (1992) -
Go down the ladder and pick up the connector, then go left.
Blog text (27)
Synonyms
4
1.8
Turn a car or other vehicle left at an intersection
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to turn or move toward the left' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'go' (move) with 'left' (direction/side). This simple verb + directional adjective pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows basic spatial composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Go left gives a simple picture: you go, or move, toward your left side. That's why it means 'to turn or move toward the left side'.