Translation guide
The English phrase 'go along' has several distinct meanings. This guide covers the most common uses for learners: physically moving along a path, accompanying someone, progressing, and agreeing or cooperating.
Please go along this road.
If you go along the river, you'll come to a park.
A more general way to say 'go along' or 'proceed along' something. Often used in written directions.
Go straight along this street.
To go together with someone, often casually or without a specific purpose.
The most natural way to say 'go along with someone'. Use と to mark the person you are accompanying.
Can I go along too?
I went along with him to do some shopping.
Literally 'follow and go', this implies going along with someone who is leading. Slightly more submissive nuance.
To proceed or advance, often in a process, project, or event.
A versatile verb meaning 'to advance' or 'to go forward'. Can be used for projects, time, or physical movement.
The work is going along smoothly.
It's going along according to plan.
Specifically means 'to make progress' or 'to go along well' with a task. Often used for work or studies.
To accept or go along with a plan, idea, or person's wishes.
Means 'to agree' or 'to approve'. Use when you go along with a suggestion or plan.
I'll go along with that proposal.
Means 'to go along with' in the sense of adapting to others' wishes or the situation. Often used in social contexts.
Formal word for 'to consent' or 'to agree'. Suitable for business or official contexts.
I'll go along with those conditions.
The English phrase 'go along' is often an idiom. Translating it word-for-word into Japanese (e.g., 行く along) will not work. Always consider the intended meaning first.
go along (literal, incorrect)
I went along to my friend's house.
今日は仕事がはかどった。
I got a lot of work done today. (Work went along well.)
みんなに合わせて、私も行くことにした。
I decided to go along with everyone else and go too.