go down |
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| Lexical unit types: | phrasal verb |
| Topics: | appearing and disappearing, increasing and decreasing |
| Source domains: | moving downwards |
| Particles: | down |
| Similes: | - |
| Verbs: | go |
| CEFR Levels: | B1 | Synomyms: | - | Antonyms: | come out, come up, go up | Definition: | 1. to move down to a lower level or place 2. When lights go down in a theatre or cinema, they become less bright and are switched off. OPPOSITE: go up 3. When the sun goes down, it moves below the horizon so you cannot see it any longer. OPPOSITE: come out, come up 4. to decrease OPPOSITE: go up | Examples: |
1) I went down to the basement to see if he was there. 2) The lights went down and the show started. 3) After the sun goes down, the stars come out. 4) People will buy it because the price went down. |
Motivation: |
DOWN is negative verticality. Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida. 2003. Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds: A Cognitive Approach. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
the conceptual metaphor MORE IS UP; LESS IS DOWN Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press. |
Slične leksičke jedinice: go off, show up, come up, put away, go out, go up, come out, turn up, turn down