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alternate case: gerund

Language Log (1,053 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

some of their blog posts in book form under the title Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log. Language Log was started on July

Amharic (6,673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the market'. There are several usages of the gerund depending on its morpho-syntactic features. The gerund functions as the head of a subordinate clause

Awaji dialect (2,902 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

-nasar-e-ta. gerund + -hairyo. Equivalent to standard gerund + -kudasa-i. Also used in the Shikoku dialects. gerund + -okure. Equivalent to standard gerund + -kure

Spanish conjugation (1,312 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Non-finite (Formas no personales) Form Infinitive (Infinitivo) amar Gerund (Gerundio) amando Past participle (Participio) amado (amado, amada, amados,

Hachijō grammar (26,460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ending) COND:conditional gerund (non-finite verb ending) PROV:provisional gerund (non-finite verb ending) CNCES:concessive gerund (non-finite verb ending)

Romance copula (5,843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

all right"). Estar is used to form the present continuous form estar + gerund, although some linguists think this is not a genuinely Catalan form, even

Uyghur grammar (7,529 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which cannot be written" There are seven types of gerund (also called verbal nouns). The -sh gerund expresses as an obiect an action that is neutral with

Pacaraos Quechua (485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stress. The negation suffix -su (<*-chu) is often shortened to -s. The gerund is expressed with -shpa, as in all Wampuy varieties. The /q/ of Proto-Quechua

Portuguese grammar (7,437 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

preferentially using the infinitive preceded by the preposition "a" in place of the gerund as the typical method of describing continuing action: Estou lendo. "I am

Portuguese conjugation (1,400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the corresponding agent nouns ("-dor(a)", "-ista", etc.) or the standard gerund. See below. The tenses correspond to: Present (presente): "I do" or "I am

Uzbek language (4,500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

likely a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish, but is usually used as a noun gerund Vowels marked with parentheses in the suffixes are dropped if the verb root

Catalan conjugation (4 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Non-finite Form Infinitive cantar Gerund cantant Past participle cantat (cantat, cantada, cantats, cantades) Indicative jo tu ell / ella (vostè) nosaltres

Western Armenian verb table (57 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

êink' sirelu êik' sirelu êin sirê! sirenk'! sirets'êk'! Infinitive Gerund Past Act. Participle Past Pass. Participle Future Participle I Future Participle

Zotung language (3,299 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

infinitive form is present in all dialects where the gerund form is used synonymously to the English -ing gerund. The second infinitive is also formed using the

Ben Zimmer (1,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Madding Gerund. William, James. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2008-11-18. "Table of Contents, Far from the Madding Gerund". Library

Manam language (5,706 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

occur on their own in a main clause;: 183 using gerunds and verbal nouns. Lichtenberk defines gerunds as verb nuclei used to indicate 'non-specific' events

English irregular verbs (4,870 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

person singular present indicative in -[e]s, and the present participle and gerund form in -ing – are formed regularly in most cases. There are a few exceptions:

Modus operandi (412 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

word operandi is a gerund in the genitive case, "of operating"; gerunds can never be pluralised in Latin, as opposed to gerundives. When a noun with an

Latin syntax (9,614 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

considered the gerundive (see below) also to be a participle, but most modern grammars treat it as a separate part of speech: Gerundive : faciendus : 'needing

Mochica language (1,403 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sequential suffix: -top purpose suffix: -næm gerund suffixes: -læc and -ssæc gerund suffix: -(æ)zcæf gerund suffix: -(æ)d Some examples of lexical items

Stentato (125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Stentato or stentando (the past participle and gerund of the Italian verb stentare "to find it hard to do something, to have difficulty doing something")

Catalan grammar (3,871 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

value) Estar + gerund (aspectual periphrasis of progressive value) Anar + gerund (aspectual periphrasis of progressive value) Continuar + gerund (aspectual

Banshū dialect (2,576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for standard motto naka=e tsume-te (lit. "some more inside=illative cram.gerund") (in the Banshū form, the construction infinitive + =i, a light command

Middle Dutch (4,663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Infinitive bliven Gerund blivene Indicative mood Present Past 1st sing. blive blêef 2nd sing. blijfs, blives blēefs, blēves 3rd sing. blijft, blivet blêef

Slovene verbs (5,774 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

participle in -n or -t, indicating an action having been performed on something. Gerund (glagolnik), indicating an act or a thing being acted upon. As in all Slavic

Fasti Capitolini (2,230 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

abd.] [in e. l. f. e. M. Ai]milius L. f. L. [n. Paullus] [rei gerund. causa] [rei gerund. causa] 301 453 Dict. Mag. Eq. [M. Valerius M. f.] M. [n.] Ma[ximus

Glossary of Italian fencing terms (1,260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

molinetti) A certain rotational cut montando adjective m. (plural montandi), gerund of montare ("to climb") Describes an ascending cut montante noun m. (plural

Jim Leisy (402 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(University of Pennsylvania) and Geoffrey K. Pullum's (UCSC) Far from the Madding Gerund. Publications from his companies have earned numerous achievement awards

Bolognese dialect (5,138 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

never falls on the stem. Gerund: esànd Past participle: stè Imperative: séppet (2nd.sg), saggna (1st.pl), siêdi (2nd.pl) Gerund: avànd Past participle:

Verðandi (178 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

times, but intutitively means the things that "are becoming", as -nd is the gerund form. She appears in the following verse from the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá

Suffix (937 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

past participle -t past tense (weak irregular) -ing present participle and gerund -en past participle (irregular) -s plural number -en plural number (irregular)

Die Wandlung (533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Autumn 1949. "Die Wandlung" has no direct equivalent in English, but the gerund "The Changing" conveys the meaning sufficiently. "Die Wandlung ist vom Diskurs

Imperfect (2,572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the verb stare (stavo, stavi, stava, stavamo, stavate, stavano) with the gerund. For example, "parlavo" could be said as "stavo parlando". The difference

Spanish irregular verbs (3,467 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the present subjunctive (sintamos, sintáis, durmamos, durmáis); the gerund (sintiendo, durmiendo); the third-person singular and plural of the preterite

Frinsted (1,417 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

called, being assigned to him for the defence of Dover Castle. Nicholas de Gerund later held the manor until he died during the reign of Henry III. The manor

Conjugation of auxiliary Catalan verbs (208 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

INFINITIVE- INFINITIU PRONOUNS/PRONOMS (4) (ÉS)SER ESTAR HAVER ANAR TENIR GERUND - GERUNDI sent estant havent anant tenint PARTICIPLE - PARTICIPI estat estat

Montfortian dialect (1,783 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

die kaldje kalle die kaldje die die kalle kaller-die Other: Infinitive Gerund Present particle Past particle Adjective Adverb Conjugation: (tö) kalle

Andean Spanish (983 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

more common in monolingual Peruvian Spanish. In upper Ecuador, a dar + gerund construction is common, ie: Pedro me dio componiendo mi reloj. "Pedro fixed

Object (grammar) (1,239 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

They asked what had happened. Free relative clause I heard what you heard. Gerund (phrase or clause) He stopped asking questions. to-infinitive Sam attempted

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (3,821 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

active participles with suffix passive participle with suffix infinitive /gerund Future tense past tense future tense |} The verbal pattern (binyan) pa‘el

Romanian nouns (4,732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and has its full form. Exception to this rule make the imperative and the gerund, which require the clitic form bound at the end of the verb. Also, the past

Perfect (grammar) (3,361 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

mood, and can also appear in non-finite forms (infinitive, participle or gerund), thus giving rise to a number of constructions which combine the perfect

Mark Liberman (474 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Aikuma. Liberman, Mark; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2006). Far from the Madding Gerund: and Other Dispatches from the Language Log. William, James, and Co. ISBN 1-59028-055-5

Tatar language (3,639 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Verbal participle -ып -ıp -п -p Pre-action gerund -ганчы -ğançı -канчы -qançı -ганчы -ğançı Post-action gerund -гач -ğaç -кач -qaç -гач -ğaç Verbal noun

Eggcorn (1,217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2012-01-26. Liberman, Mark, and Geoffrey K. Pullum. (2006) Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log. Wilsonville, OR: William, James

Seediq language (1,704 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

teʼcu! "what a mess!"), loanwords and non-finite verbal forms with the gerund prefix cese- (Tsukida 2005: 292, 297). With the graphemes c and j the practical

Guyanese Creole (716 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"suitor" for use as a verb and then applying standard patterns to generate a gerund form) Nation language Jamaican patois Trinidadian Creole Tobagonian Creole

Sona (constructed language) (2,085 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

ru "let me go" Participle Relative ruci "who (which) is going" Adverbial Gerund rui "(while) going" Absolute rutio "having gone" Indicative Present ru "go/goes"

Otagiri Dam (207 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

consists of “O” and “tagiri”. “O” is a prefix of Japanese. “Tagiri” is the gerund of the verb “tagiru” (it means the motion of water like “boil”). In Nagano

Control (linguistics) (2,422 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Scrolls is fun. - Arbitrary control of the gerund reading. Seeing is believing. - Arbitrary control of the gerunds seeing and believing Having to do something

Bumthang language (631 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

perfect, the infinitival future, the volitional future, the supine, the gerund, the adhortative, and the optative. Languages of Bhutan Bumthang District

Ika Hügel-Marshall (2,248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Children of GIs". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 7 January 2015. Janson 2005, p. 62. Gerund 2014, p. 188. "Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992". Audre Lorde

José Francisco de Isla (1,530 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Zotes (1758 and 1768) - History of the famous preacher Friar Gerund de Campazas, otherwise Gerund Zotes (1772 translation). Mercurio general de Europa, lista

Tupi language (5,593 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tall) N'i puku-î (he/she isn't tall) Negates verbs in the infinitive or gerund form. Kunhã osepyîak pitanga ker-e'yma The woman sees that the child doesn't

St George's Church, Stamford (476 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Name Date Robert Peck 1225 Thomas De Gerund 1226 Ralph De Stok 1229 Philip De Riston 1288 John De Ferriby 1301 Richard De Dunham 1340 Hugh De Oundle 1346

Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar nasals (1,641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the gerund in São José do Rio Preto's accent Archived 2012-12-31 at archive.today (in Portuguese) The deletting of /d/ in the morpheme of the gerund in

Latin verb paradigms (636 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

genitive vīsūs supine dative vīsuī supine ablative vīsū gerund accusative videndum gerund genitive videndī gerund dative videndō gerund ablative videndō

Brown Corpus (1,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Auxiliary, singular, present VBD verb, past tense VBG verb, present participle/gerund VBN verb, past participle VBZ verb, 3rd. singular present FW Foreign Words

Ukrainian grammar (7,215 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

dropping the -ть, and adding -чи(й). Most commonly this participle is used as gerund with the form -чи with a meaning approaching the equivalent English construction

Being (disambiguation) (242 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and existence. Being may also refer to: Being, the present participle and gerund form of the English verb to be Being in itself, a term from 20th-century

English language (23,164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(past) form. The secondary forms are a plain form used for the infinitive, a gerund-participle and a past participle. The copula verb to be is the only verb

Bulgarian verbs (4,075 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bulgarian verbs are the most complicated part of Bulgarian grammar, especially when compared with other Slavic languages. Bulgarian verbs are inflected

Instrumental case (2,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a predicate with infinitive, future tense, imperative, conditional and gerund of the verbs "быть" and "являться" (both meaning 'to be') (for example,

Ennius (2,108 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 0-405-14030-4. Elliott, J. (2009). "Ennius' 'Cunctator' and the History of a Gerund in the Roman Historiographical Tradition". The Classical Quarterly. 59 (2):

Stylistic device (2,380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as inversion or such structures as appositive phrases, verbal phrases (gerund, participle, and infinitive), and subordinate clauses (noun, adjective,

Gilbert Norwood (581 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1932, 1950. Spoken in Jest. London 1938. The Syntax of the Latin Gerund and Gerundive. Toronto 1932. Plautus and Terence. New York/London 1932. Pindar

Seal of New Mexico (1,270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as "it grows as it goes", the second word being the ablative case of the gerund of the verb eo ("to go). It is taken from the epic poem De Rerum Natura

Polish language (8,961 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

detachable particle by), imperatives, an infinitive, present participle, present gerund and past participle. Perfective verbs have a simple future tense (formed

Olga Kapeliuk (1,823 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

about Neo-Aramaic? Israel Oriental Studies 19 (1996): 59–70. The gerund and gerundial participle in Eastern Neo-Aramaic. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung

Cimbrian language (1,846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

future), mood (indicative, subjunctive, conditional, imperative, infinitive, gerund, and participial), and voice (active, passive). In regards to conjugation

Indo-European copula (4,006 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

("to walk/run") are used in similar ways. In Swedish, which usually lacks gerund forms, the corresponding stå is often used similarly, along with sitta ("to

Vulgar Latin (7,850 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

express 'I am writing'. The historical development of the stare + ablative gerund progressive tense in those Romance languages that have it seems to have

Campidanese Sardinian (920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

definite article of "is" (Campidanese is terras vs Logudorese sas terras) Gerund in "-endi" (Campidanese èssendi vs Logudorese èssende) Conservation of the

Portuguese dialects (4,806 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alentejo and the Algarve, progressive constructions are formed with the gerund form of verbs instead of a followed by the infinitive that one finds in

Syntactic category (1,508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and verbs can be divided into finite verbs and non-finite verbs (e.g. gerund, infinitive, participle, etc.). The central lexical categories give rise

Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo (964 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

such as Summer Lightning (1992, directed by Paola Galassi), Back to the Gerund (with Flavio Oreglio and Antonio Cornacchione), Air Storm (1993, directed

The Dreaming (2,975 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Espaces de rêves in French ("dream spaces") and Snivanje in Croatian (a gerund derived from the verb for "to dream"). The concept of the Dreaming is inadequately

Wallachian dialect (1,888 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

am făcut). In Muntenia, the present indicative, the subjunctive, and the gerund of some verbs have [j] or [i] instead of the last consonant in the root:

Prilep-Bitola dialect (988 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Prilep; use of -јќум and -јким instead of the standard -јќи for the gerund, in older speakers, e.g. одејќум (while walking). чупе (/ˈt͡ʃupɛ/) 'girl'

Turkmen grammar (3,433 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

form gerund by using the suffix -(ý)iş/uş/üş/yş, -ma/me, the infinitive, or by infinitive + dative suffix -a/-e. There is also desiderative gerund formed

Italian conjugation (6,896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

/ through talking / …": the gerund is identical to the present participle, but with final -te replaced by -do The gerund can be used in combination with

Kusaal language (1,623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gosin ... "If you were to look (but you won't) ..." (e) -b(o), -g(o), -r(e) gerund, verbal noun: o gosig la mor dabiem "his (the angel's) appearance was scary"

Passé composé (1,521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

form the past participle for second-group verbs (-IR verbs with -ISSANT gerund), drop the -ir and add -i. finir (to finish) - ir + i = fini (finished)

Haketia (2,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

-ar verbs -er verbs -ir verbs Infinitive -ar -er -ir Gerund -ando -iendo Participle -ado -ido

Naʼvi grammar (2,012 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

{} swimmer The prefix tì, in combination with the infix -us-, forms the gerund. The suffix -tswo creates a noun indicating the ability to do the verb.

Sunwar language (2,216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

marker NPT: non-preterite SNG: postposition of singularity PF: perfective gerund marker P: patient (of transitive verb) SVI: singular intransitive verb 23D:

Inner–Outer hypothesis (2,547 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

generalised into a gerund, an infinitive, and the future tense from its necessitative use in late OIA, while the inner languages have a gerund and infinitive

Romanian verbs (865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Participle Past făcut (sg., masc.) făcută (sg., fem.) făcuți (pl., masc.) făcute (pl., fem.) done Gerund – făcând doing Supine – de făcut (something) to do

Romanian verbs (865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Participle Past făcut (sg., masc.) făcută (sg., fem.) făcuți (pl., masc.) făcute (pl., fem.) done Gerund – făcând doing Supine – de făcut (something) to do

Brittonicisms in English (4,366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

analogous form in Dutch. The second used beon/wesan, a preposition, and a gerund (-unge), and has been variously proposed as being influenced by similar

Marlene Wayar (597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gerundio: no sé qué soy, sí que estoy siendo travesti'" [Marlene Wayar: 'I Am a Gerund: I Do Not Know What I Am, I'm Being a Cross-dresser]. Revista T (in Spanish)

Modern Greek grammar (5,853 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

typically ending in -ontas, which is variably called either a participle or a gerund by modern authors. It is historically derived from an old present participle

Bowls (3,874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Erasmus referred to the game as globurum. The name of bowls is implied in the gerund bowlyn, recorded in the mid-15th century. The term bowl for "wooden ball"

Southern Sámi (1,827 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

böötidh båetede 3PL båetieh böötin N/A Participle båetije båateme N/A Negative Form båetieh Gerund båetieminie Infinitive båetedh Verbal noun båeteme

Samogitian language (2,115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

derived from all tenses with distinct active and passive forms, and several gerund forms. Nouns and other declinable words are declined in eight cases: nominative

Geoffrey K. Pullum (2,209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

978-1-316-51464-1. Liberman, Mark, and Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2006). Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from the Language Log, William, James & Company. ISBN 1-59028-055-5

Argument (linguistics) (2,576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

the form of the predicate varies (e.g. active verb, passive participle, gerund, nominal, etc.). In languages that have morphological case, the arguments

Spanish grammar (7,724 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

depending on context, to agree with the subject, and then attaching a gerund of the verb that follows. The past (imperfect) progressive simply requires

List of closed pairs of English rhyming words (499 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wasn't doorway, Norway dovetail, love-tale druid, fluid emu, seamew errand, gerund exile, flexile extant, sextant eyebrow, highbrow faithful, scatheful farness

Low German (8,367 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In the very south of the East Westphalian language area, the original gerund of the West Germanic languages has been preserved: The forms of Low German's

Peninsular Spanish (2,548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

can express plural number, becoming sen, when it follows an infinitive, gerund, or subjunctive form used to express a command, as in casarsen 'to get married'

North White Carniolan dialect (1,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

-i). Participles in -č, -e, and -(v)ši are not in use anymore, and the gerund is also rarely used. The pluperfect is not in use anymore, and the preterite

Daylight saving time (12,440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

saving is used, readers might puzzle momentarily over whether saving is a gerund (the saving of daylight) or a participle (the time for saving). [...] Using

De Vloek (1,452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

worden draaiende gehouden zonder subsidie en het pand wordt in eigen beheer gerund. "Grootste graffiti / street art schildering van Den Haag". Straat expo

Dönmeh (4,107 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bali [tr] defines the term dönme as follows: The term Donme is a Turkish gerund meaning 'to turn, revolve or return' and, by extension, "to betray" (i.e

De Vloek (1,452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

worden draaiende gehouden zonder subsidie en het pand wordt in eigen beheer gerund. "Grootste graffiti / street art schildering van Den Haag". Straat expo

Germanic verbs (2,932 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

modern central Swedish, but are retained in some dialects.) **(English gerund and present participle have merged, and often the past participle with the

Zarma language (2,187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to form ordinal numbers and to some nouns to form adjectives. A sort of gerund can be formed by adding -yàŋ, which transforms the verb into a noun. There

Doug Ose (1,709 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

grammatical forms of such words and phrases (including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive forms)". The bill omitted "tits", but included

Old High German (4,414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nāmumēs (-un) nāmīmēs (-īn) — 2nd pl nāmut nāmīt — 3rd pl nāmun nāmīn — Gerund Genitive nëmannes Dative nëmanne Participle Present nëmanti (-enti) Past

Interlingue grammar (2,959 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seen in adjectives such as fatigant (tiring, from fatigar, to tire). The gerund is used to indicate another action or state of being going on at the same

Binge-watching (4,573 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

operas for weekend binge viewing." This first use of "binge viewing" as a gerund predated "binge-watching" uses by nearly a decade. The first known usage

George Carlin (7,625 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

grammatical forms of such words and phrases (including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive forms)". The bill omitted "tits", but included

Tammam Hassan (1,094 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Arabic words based on the main sounds of a given word rather than the gerund or the past tense form which had been the tradition of his predecessors

Creole language (8,015 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

less prototypical, given the presence of inflection to mark plural, past, gerund, and participle forms. Objections to the McWhorter-Parkvall hypotheses point

Dutton Speedwords (9,165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

devotes six paragraphs to hammer home the difference between the English gerund (verbal noun) and the present participle. He is adamant that forms prefixed

Lingua Franca Nova grammar (3,002 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

come becomes comente, meaning "eating". This should never be used as a gerund, as it often is in English (e.g. "I love eating” is ‘’me ama come’’). The

Spanish language (16,326 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

second, third; 2 numbers: singular, plural; 3 verboid forms: infinitive, gerund, and past participle. The indicative mood is the unmarked one, while the

Nocera Superiore (3,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pronounced as an open one and sometimes there is a tendency to replace the gerund suffix -anne with -enne: stann' aspettenne, stann' magnenne ('they're waiting'

Punjabi grammar (2,038 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Root * nacc Dir. Infinitive/ Gerund/ Obligatory *-ṇ-ā naccṇā Obl. Infinitive *-(a)ṇ naccaṇ Abl. Infinitive *-ṇ-ȭ naccṇȭ Conjunctive *-kē nacckē Agentive/

Abkhaz language (6,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

so-called "verbal noun," the Masdar form of the verb resembles the English gerund. It is formed by the addition of a specific suffix to a bare verb stem,

Basque language (11,408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

object case). The verb is erosten dizkit, in which erosten is a kind of gerund ("buying") and the auxiliary dizkit means "he/she (does) them for me". This

Lithuanian language (10,262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from all simple tenses with distinct active and passive forms, and two gerund forms. In practical terms, the rich overall inflectional system makes the

Catalan personal pronouns (2,001 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

enclitic (immediately after). Enclitic pronouns are used with infinitives, gerunds, and positive imperatives. Pots fer-nos mandonguilles? ("Can you make us

English possessive (4,066 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

proposal is rejected When a gerundive phrase acts as the object of a verb or preposition, the agent/subject of the gerund may be possessive or not, reflecting

Sexism (21,810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

beings are gender-differentiated. For more gender-neutral constructions, gerund nouns are sometimes used instead, as this eliminates the grammatical gender

Vedic period (9,308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Publishing. Proferes, Theodore (2003). "Kuru kings, Tura Kavaseya and the -tvaya Gerund". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 66 (2): 210–219

German verbs (5,751 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

‘I let you build a house’ The zu-infinitive has nothing to do with the gerundive, although it is created in a similar way. One simply puts the preposition

Linguistic areas of the Americas (5,250 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

grammatical traits include: change in a grammatical particle change in gerund loss of first-person plural inclusive-exclusive contrast argumentative case

Vedic period (9,308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Publishing. Proferes, Theodore (2003). "Kuru kings, Tura Kavaseya and the -tvaya Gerund". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 66 (2): 210–219

Sanskrit grammar (4,549 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Causative Denominative The non-finite forms are: Participles Infinitive Gerund Declension of a noun in Sanskrit involves the interplay of two 'dimensions':

Interlingue (12,572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seen in adjectives such as fatigant (tiring, from fatigar, to tire). The gerund is used to indicate another action or state of being going on at the same

Nheengatu language (4,367 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nheegatu lost Tupinambá's system of five moods (indicative, imperative, gerund, circumstantial and subjunctive), converging into a single indicative mood

Glosa (3,229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Do I read the book? Passive gene U bibli gene lekto ex mi. The book is/gets read by me. Gerund - (U) lekto (de bibli). (The) reading (of the book...)

Grammar of late Quenya (3,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cárar Past hentanë hentaner carnë carner Future hentuva hentuvar caruva caruvar Perfect ehentië ehentier acárië acárier Gerund hentië hentier cárië cárier

Belter Creole (3,897 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2017). "Post". twitter.com. ando is the continuous aspect marker (like the gerund). du just makes a noun into a verb Nick Farmer (14 February 2017). "Post"

Gujarati grammar (3,435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Desiderative *-v-GN hālvũ Obl. Infinitive *-v-ā hālvā Conjunctive *-ī(ne) hālī(ne) Agentive *-nār-GN hālnār(ũ) Gerund/ Prospective/ Obligatory *-v-ā-n-GN hālvānũ

Assamese language (7,418 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Stem Likh (write) Kha (eat, drink, consume) Gerund Likha khüa Causative Likha khüa Conjugative Likhi Khai & Kha Infinitive Likhibo Khabo Goal Likhibólói

Catalan language (12,003 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

first conjugation: portar ("to bring") Non-finite Form Infinitive portar Gerund portant Past participle portat (portat, portada, portats, portades) Indicative

Blend word (5,833 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'musical'), from מחזה (makhazé 'theatre play') and זמר (zémer 'singing [gerund]') מגדלור (migdalór 'lighthouse'), from מגדל (migdál 'tower') and אור (or

A Whiter Shade of Pale (5,346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

June 2009. Pullum, Geoffrey K; Liberman, Mark (2006). Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from the Language Log. Wilsonville, Or.: William, James

Galician–Asturian (8,759 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

imperfect; Imperative, infinitive simple and conjugate, participle and gerund. The synthetic future the construction of the future tense is with the phrase

English markers of habitual aspect (1,432 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to + (complement)] When the adjectival form is followed by a verb, the gerund is used: I am used to going to college in the mornings. I used to drink

Classical Quechua (13,895 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'Macacalla we know ... its being on a hill'. There are two gerunds, marked for switch-reference. A gerund expressing a concomitant action of the subject of the

Sicilian language (8,340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Infinitive èssiri / siri Gerund essennu / sennu Past participle statu Indicative eu/iu/ju tu iḍḍu nuàutri vuàutri iḍḍi Present sugnu si' esti / è semu

Domingo Patricio Meagher (528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gonzaga and Saint Stanislaus Kostka in 1726. Satirical verses on Friar Gerund of Campazas, fictional character created by Father Isla in 1758. A funeral

Tense–aspect–mood (7,092 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

use of the participle mood (at present tense, inherited from the Latin gerundive) has almost completely fallen out of use in modern French for denoting

Old Japanese (7,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Old Japanese copulas Infinitive Adnominal Gerund ni no2 nite to2 tu

Kannada grammar (4,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as may the adjectival participle in its clause. Kannada does not have a gerund, but nouns that express the same idea can be formed by suffixing the third-person

Grounded theory (7,607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1984–1994. A Reader (two volumes). Sociology Press, 1995. Glaser BG (ed). Gerund Grounded Theory: The Basic Social Process Dissertation. Sociology Press

Early Romani (5,709 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

indeclinable. There were two gerunds, both expressing actions simultaneous with that of the main verb: The inflected gerund consisted of the present stem

Amidah (7,503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

enough for others to hear. The name "Amidah", which literally is the Hebrew gerund of "standing", comes from the fact that the worshipper recites the prayer

DLTBCo (2,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hino, Hyundai, MAN, Kia, King Long & Yutong units. DMMW is dedicated to gerund the old history of the company to be able to reach its 100th foundation

Yes and no (5,856 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 16 June 2018. Carl Philipp Reiff (1862). "The Adverb and the Gerund". English-Russian Grammar. Paris: Maisonneuve and Co. p. 134. Wendy G. Lehnert

Grammatical aspect in Slavic languages (1,756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

- написать Passive participle: pisany - napisany / писаный - написанный Gerund: pisanie - napisanie / писание - написание Past impersonal form: pisano

Audre Lorde (12,290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Poetics on Afro-German Women Writers". German Studies. 29 (1): 21–40. Gerund, Katharina (2015). "Transracial Feminist Alliances?". In Broeck, Sabine;

DeWereldMorgen (1,464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2016. De site wordt gerund door een kleine kern van professionele journalisten. Daarnaast werken honderden

Chuvash language (8,466 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

suffixes is as follows: voice - iterativity - potentiality - negation - tense/gerund/participle - personal suffix. The personal endings of the verb are mostly

Cleft sentence (4,236 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to address a far-reaching problem that Oxfam is launching this campaign. Gerund: It could be going home early or slacking off at work that the boss reacted

Classification of Romance languages (5,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[kanˈtat] cantad [kanˈtaː] cântat [kɨnˈtat] cantè [kaŋˈtɛː] chanté [ʃɑ̃ˈte] Gerund cantandum cantande [kanˈtande̞] cantando [kanˈtando] cantando [kanˈtando̞]

English modal auxiliary verbs (9,927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

take and be (as in Take it!, I didn't take it, and Don't be silly), the gerund-participles taking and being, and the past participles taken and been. Modal

Latin grammar (6,021 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

going to lead Perfect ductus/a/um having been led GERUNDIVE dūcendus/a/um (needing) to be led GERUND ad dūcendum dūcendī dūcendō with a view to leading

Pronunciation of English ⟨a⟩ (5,121 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'Manning' (the surname) /ˈmænɪŋ/ and 'manning' (the present participle and gerund of the verb 'to man') /ˈmæːnɪŋ/ as well as 'planet' /ˈplænət/ versus 'plan

Phoenician–Punic literature (2,068 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conjunction, interjection, article, impersonal mood, infinitive and the gerund. In addition, Eusebius of Caesarea attributes the authorship of a treatise

Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish (17,177 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

come before the verb, except with the imperative, the infinitive, and the gerund. In verbal periphrases, they precede the auxiliary verb. In spoken Brazilian

Estonian grammar (6,561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and verbs using suffixes like -ja (agent, from -ma infinitive), -mine (gerund, from -ma infinitive), -la, -nna, -tar, -ur, -stik, -ndik, -nik, -ik, -k

Sumerian language (32,333 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

participle, which often has a future and modal meaning similar to the Latin gerundive, e.g. 𒁶𒈨 dim2-me(-d) "which will/should be made". Adding a locative-terminative

Onbin (4,230 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stems" used before certain suffixes (in modern Japanese, the past -ta, gerund -te, conditional -tara, and representative -tari). Consonant-stem verbs

Catalan orthography (7,947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

they are pronounced with separate syllables. This concerns the infinitive, gerund, future and conditional forms (for example traduir, traduint, traduiré and

Middle Persian (18,496 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in -ān (ʾn): e.g. griyān (BKYWNʾn), gldʾn), 'crying'. It may occur as a gerund – zarduxšt griyān passox guft (zrtwxšt gldʾn pshw' gwpt), 'Zarasthustra

Ferdinando Warner (2,334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ecclesiastical satire: The History of the Famous Preacher Friar Gerund de Compazas [es]: otherwise Gerund Zotes; translated from the Spanish, 1772 (vols. 1–2).

Visayah (1,262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

order; in the traditional word order the subject is followed by object with gerund and infinitives in between and the finite verb in the final position. An

Korean mixed script (4,491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'to be able to go-[primary conjunctive]' 'to have sore feet-[conjunctive/gerund]' Translation My love, you are leaving me. Your feet will be SORE before

Central Valencian (843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Another tendency of Central Valencian is the analogical velarisation of the gerunds: beguent (instead of bevent) 'drinking', creguent (creent) 'believing'

English auxiliary verbs (10,552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the participial adjective is followed by to and a verb, the latter is a gerund-participle: I am used to going to college in the mornings. Data from a corpus

Camarão Indians' letters (3,087 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

influenced by Portuguese. In fact, these writings display the use of the gerund in constructions analogous to the Portuguese "estou falando" (I'm speaking)

Iloilo City (29,601 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

villages. These raiding expeditions are called panggubat (noun) or manggubat (gerund verb form). However, upon Christianization and Hispanization, the fiercest

Ojibwe grammar (4,880 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

into nouns representing an object by adding -gan or -n, or if a VAI into a gerund by dropping the final vowel or if VAI2 by adding -o. Plurals and obviative

Sardinian language (40,435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Infinitive cant- are ai tìm- ere i fin- ire iri Gerund cant- ande endi tim- ende endi fin- inde endi Past Participle cant- àu / ada adu au tim- i(d)u /

Proto-Finnic language (7,828 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Infinitive I *-tak (-dak) : *-ta- (-da-) Infinitive II *-te- (-de-) Gerund ("Infinitive III") *-ma Action noun ("Infinitive IV") *-minen : *-mice- Present

Modern Hebrew verbs (2,682 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

below. Hebrew gerunds cannot be used as adjectives, unlike in English. The passive binyans pu'al and huf'al lack gerunds. Not all gerunds shown here correspond

Glossary of ancient Roman religion (34,549 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the upper heavens. An adjective derived from nefas (following). The gerund of verb fari, to speak, is commonly used to form derivate or inflected forms

Kabardian grammar (8,981 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

щIэлажьэр (ɕʼaɮaːʑar): reason, why X works Masdar (a form of verb close to gerund) in the Kabardian language is expressed with the suffix -н: тхы-н "a write

Signaling (album) (849 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

nine pieces offers a wealth of inspired activity and interaction... The gerund in the disc's title isn't just concerned with broadcasting influences. It's

Persian verbs (5,997 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'I am able to go'. The Persian infinitive is more like a verbal noun or gerund, used in phrases such as نوشتن اين کتاب neveštan-e in ketāb 'the writing

List of English words of Old English origin (6,689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hurst hush husk hussy hutch "storage chest" -in (as in "sit-in") -ing (gerund ending) -ing (pres. part. ending) -ish I I've I.O.U. ice iceberg (partial

Phonological history of French (6,951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Past Part. cantātum */kanˈtaːtu/ chanté(ṭ) /tʃanˈtæ(θ)/ chanté /ʃɑ̃ˈte/ Gerund cantandum */kanˈtandu/ chantant /tʃanˈtant/ chantant /ʃɑ̃ˈtɑ̃/ 1sg. indic

Silvan Tomkins (8,655 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and affective subsystems” (p. 10). By blending verb and noun forms in the gerund ‘minding,’ he declares that not only is information being processed, but

Tigrinya verbs (3,386 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

{ls'y} (3C) 'shave', and sḥk (3A) 'laugh'. The verbs are all in the gerundive tense/aspect form. መስኮት ሰቢሩ mäskot säbiru 'He broke a window'; {sbr},

Kuyavian dialect (1,713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

here more than in Standard Polish, and gerunds (-anie, -enie, -cie) might be used more than their non-gerund noun counterpart (od głowy bolynia instead

Rachel Kann (3,212 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at Ralph's Rock Diner in Worcester, Massachusetts, as part of the Dirty Gerund Poetry Series. She was again awarded at that year's Rabbit Heart Poetry

List of Latin verbs with English derivatives (126 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

egestion, egestive, enregister, exaggerate, exaggeration, gerund, gerundial, gerundival, gerundive, gest, gestant, gestate, gestation, gestational, gestative

Romance linguistics (10,708 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the accusative-plus-infinitive construction used for reported speech, gerundive constructions, and the common use of reduced relative clauses expressed

Chichewa tenses (16,928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

can be used as the subject of a verb, in which case it is translated as a gerund: Kusúta kúmaonóngá moyo. "Smoking damages the health." It can also be the