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Gerund

In linguistics, a gerund (/ˈdʒɛrənd, -ʌnd/ abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that functions as a noun. The name is derived from Late Latin gerundium, meaning "which is to be carried out". In English, the gerund has the properties of both verb and noun, such as being…

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Gerunds in various languages

LatinAblative caseCase inflectionsItalianSpanish
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Gerunds in English

English verbsVerbPhraseNon-finite clauseIndirect object
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Traditional use

GenitiveDativeAblativeObjectAdjectival
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Latin gerund

PresentImperfectConjugationInflectional endingVerb phrase
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Latin gerund

Gerunds in various languages

Gerunds in English

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Gerund

Nodes98
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Triples127
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020408
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Gerund

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related to Other · 23
Gerund → Arabic, Called, Common, Dhivehi, English, For, Hungarian, In, In Arabic, In Hebrew, In Hungarian, In Irish, In Japanese, In Korean, In Maldivian, In Persian, In Turkish, It, Lastly, Latin
related to Slavic · 20
Gerund → Additionally, Czech, English, In, In Bulgarian, In Macedonian, In Russian, In Serbo-Croatian, It, Italian, Latin, Modern, Morphologically, Past, Polish, Present, Romance, Serbo-Croatian, Slavic, These
related to Latin and Romance · 10
Gerund → English, Grammars, In, It, Latin, See, Several Romance, The, These, They
related to Formation · 9
Gerund → Active, Continuous, Non-continuous, Non-finite, Non-perfect, Passive, Perfect, The, Thus
related to Traditional use · 9
Gerund → By, English, It, Latin, Moreover, The Latin, This, Thus, To
related to Germanic · 7
Gerund → Frisian, High German, In, Old English, Saxon, These, West Germanic
related to Examples of use · 5
Gerund → After, Do, In, Swimming, The
related to Borrowings of English -ing forms in other languages · 4
Gerund → Both, English, For, In
related to Gerunds in English · 4
Gerund → An, English, In, Other
is a · 3
Gerund → form of the verb, root form of the verb, verb eating

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verb form -ing noun english used object use forms participle latin term subject verbs clause languages may like uses clauses

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Gerundis aform of the verb0.90text
Gerundis aroot form of the verb0.90text
Gerundis averb eating0.90text
an objectinstance ofIt is very rarely combined with a dependent sentence element0.80text
playing on computersinstance ofEnglish grammar uses gerund to mean an -ing form used in non-finite clauses0.80text
vēnātiō 'huntinginstance ofRelated gerundive forms are composed in a similar way with adjectival inflexional endings.FunctionThe four inflections are used for a limited range of grammatical functionsThese…0.80text
Englishinstance ofWhen people first wrote grammars of languages0.80text
and based them on works of Latin grammarinstance ofWhen people first wrote grammars of languages0.80text
they adopted the term gerund to label non-finite verb forms with these two propertiesinstance ofWhen people first wrote grammars of languages0.80text
vēnātiō 'huntinginstance ofFunctionThe four inflections are used for a limited range of grammatical functionsThese functions could be fulfilled by other abstract nouns derived from verbs0.80text
those found in Italianinstance ofand thus generally bear resemblance to Romance gerunds0.80text
rather than to noun-like gerunds in English or Latin.In Bulgarianinstance ofand thus generally bear resemblance to Romance gerunds0.80text

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