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'Gonna' is not a word, really. It is a transcription of a common native pronunciation of 'going to'. Therefore, it should only be used when writing dialogue.

Hello sir,

Thanks for this update ,i had often listen this word and even heard "Avtar" but never find this word in any dictniory is it really a English word or is it derived from any other language..what does exactly means.

Hi David, and welcome to English Forums.

Did you read Mr. M's response?

It's not a word, but it's how people often say "going to." You should not use it in careful writing except as dialog, to represent what people say. Even then, use it to show they are children or are speaking casually, even if it's how the words actually came out.

A 1950's film set in the old west has Fess Parker as a frontiersman who happens upon a widowed French lady, and he decides to help her young kids learn English (by conjugating verbs, no less). "First we start with yer aint-a-gonnas: I ain't-a-gonna, you aint-a-gonna, he aint-a-gonna", etc. That perfected, he moves on to the fixin'-tos: "I'm a-fixin'-to, you're a-fixin'-to", etc.

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Phil -- have you ever seen a play called "The Foreigner"? It has a similar scene that's really funny -- someone with a strong (uneducated rural Southern) accent is trying to teach someone English with examples of common household objects -- like "lay-ump" and "fow-erk."

Philiphe decides to help her young kids learn English

And after that did he larn 'em their math, including their guzzintas?

3 guzzinta 9 3 times.
5 guzzinta 25 5 times.
7 guzzinta 42 6 times.

Hi Sir,

I have not yet read M's response ,but surley going to and thanks for your reply.

Have a great time
David