bad gaan
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the informal copulative sense of gaan ("to feel some way about something"); bad is not used in Dutch (even in slang) besides this phrase and some borrowed phrases, like bad bitch. But note that this specific phrase is not a borrowing (although bad, which here functions as an adverb, is borrowed from English bad) nor indeed a calque, as English go bad does not share the same semantics.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bad gaan
- (slang) to not be able to stand or tolerate, to have a bad experience [with op]
- Ik ga altijd bad op wiet. ― I always have a bad experience with weed.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of bad gaan: see gaan.