the Catalan periphrastic past, idiosyncratically formed with the present tense of "go" plus the infinitive.
That always seemed quaint to me, since I'm used to having such constructions refer to the future, rather than the past -- as in I'm going to eat something and Je vais t'appeler. (I think Castilian does this, too, doesn't it? Voy a trabajar?)
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Date: 2006-06-28 07:26 am (UTC)That always seemed quaint to me, since I'm used to having such constructions refer to the future, rather than the past -- as in I'm going to eat something and Je vais t'appeler. (I think Castilian does this, too, doesn't it? Voy a trabajar?)