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I am currently practicing Japanese by reading a novel but I have reached a
sentence that I could not understand. ごうと音がして Can you please translate the
vocabulary and verb used along with any unique sentence structure/grammar it
may have. Thank you.

If it helps, the full context is 「問答、無用」 ごうと音がして、魔女の手の中で火炎が燃え盛る。 I understand
that the beginning reads "These questions are useless" and the last part reads
"Fire blazed from inside the witch's hand," but I have no clue about the
middle part.
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words translation onomatopoeia
What does "ごうと音がして" mean?
ごうと音 is a sound, a short version of ごうごうと meaning "thundering". The full
sentence then would be something like

> ごうと音がして、魔女の手の中で火炎が燃え盛る。  
>  There was a thundering sound and fire blazed from the hands of the witch.

The と indicates that ごう is used as adverb.
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"ごう" is an onomatopoeic word and you know that the fire blazes furiously.
Japanese can hear sound of "ごう" from furiously burning fire.

"ごうと音がして" could be translated into "with a roar".
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