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==Contracted forms== The ''going to'' future construction is frequently contracted in [[colloquial English]], with the colloquial form '''''gonna''''' and the other variations of it resulting from a relaxed pronunciation. In some forms of English, the copula may also be omitted. Hence "You're going to be" could be said as "You're gonna be" or just "You gonna be". In the [[Grammatical person|grammatical first person]], ''I'm gonna'' (which is, in full, ''I am going to'') may further contract to ''I'm'n'a'' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|aɪ|m|ən|ə}} or ''[[wikt:Imma|Imma]]'' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|aɪ|m|ə}}. These contracted forms can provide a distinction between the spatial and temporal senses of the expression: "I'm gonna swim" explicitly carries the temporal meaning of futurity, as opposed to the spatial meaning of "I'm going [now] [in order] to swim", or "I'm going [in the pool] to swim".
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