Clipping ofgovernment.
gomen (pluralgomens)
- (Manglish)government
2001 February 17, "Taikohtai" (username), “Demonising Malaysiakini”, insoc.culture.malaysia[1] (Usenet):Thegomen is now resorting to high handed means to push through their version of events - DEEP DEEP Denials, although they all know the truth!
2008 April 13, "Tetuang" (username), “Rice now cost 30% more !”, insoc.culture.malaysia[2] (Usenet):theirgomen spends millions to subsidize their paddy planters [...]
2017 January 12, S Thayaparan, “It is not English football, it is football”, inMalaysiakini[3]:We always say that the “gomen” divides us but the reality is that these days, every opportunity is grasped to describe what it wrong with this country instead of using the opportunity to celebrate in the “others” success.
- gomenshud(clipping of "government should", unrealistic expectations for the Malaysian government)
gomen
- Rōmaji transcription ofごめん
FromEnglishgomen, aManglishclipping ofgovernment.
gomen (pluralgomen-gomenorgomen2)
- (Malaysia, colloquial, slang) Thegovernment.
- Synonyms:kerajaan,pemerintah
FromOld Dutch*gōmen, fromProto-Germanic*gaumijaną.
gômen
- toobserveclosely
- tocare for
- totake care of
- toarrange
Conjugation ofgômen (weak)| infinitive | base form | gômen | |
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| genitive | gômens |
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| dative | gômene |
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| present | past | present | past |
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| 1st person singular | gôme | — | gôme | — |
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| 2nd person singular | gôoms,gômes | — | gôoms,gômes | — |
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| 3rd person singular | gôomt,gômet | — | gôme | — |
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| 1st person plural | gômen | — | gômen | — |
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| 2nd person plural | gôomt,gômet | — | gôomt,gômet | — |
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| 3rd person plural | gômen | — | gômen | — |
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| imperative |
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| singular | gôom,gôme |
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| plural | gôomt,gômet |
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| present | past |
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| participle | gômende | — |
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FromOld Englishguman, plural ofguma, fromProto-Germanic*gumaniz, plural of*gumô, fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰmónes, plural of*ǵʰmṓ. Equivalent togome +-en(plural suffix).
gomen
- plural ofgome(“man”)
gomen
- alternative form ofgame
gomen n
- alternative form ofgamen
Stronga-stem:
gomen
- inflection ofgomar:
- third-personpluralpresentsubjunctive
- third-personpluralimperative
