gonna/going to

[svetlana14]

Can I ask you a follow up question to my previous ones in respect to [https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/im-going-to-do.294847/] ?

The woman on the video [

] at 00:10 seems to have made what looks like a partial reduction of the word "to" in "going to. The relevant subtitles are "What's am going to do"). And immediately after she does not reduce "going to" saying it entirely as "I'm just going to give you" with "to" as /du/ or /tu/. Is that right?

 

[teechar]

The woman on in the video at 00:10 seems to have made what looks like a partial reduction of the word "to" in "going to". The relevant subtitles are "What's am going to do").

No. She says "What I'm going to do" in a typical American accent.

 

[dunchee]

And immediately after she does not reduce "going to" saying it entirely as "I'm just going to give you" with "to" as /du/ or /tu/. Is that right?

If anything, it's unstressed "to":

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IPA: /unstressed tʊ, tə /

It's not a full-on /tu/ (if this is what you mean).

 

[svetlana14]

If anything, it's unstressed "to":

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IPA: /unstressed tʊ, tə /

It's not a full-on /tu/ (if this is what you mean).

One American, who is not a teacher, has said she says a kind of "goeen duh do."

 

[jutfrank]

In writing, we often represent the contraction of 'going to' as 'gonna' because the /t/ of 'to' sounds more like a /n/.