-ing

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Etymology 1 1.3.1 Suffix 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.4 Etymology 2 1.4.1 Suffix 1.4.1.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Quotations 1.4.2.1 Translations 1.5 Etymology 3 1.5.1 Suffix 1.5.1.1 Derived terms 1.6 See also 2 Dutch 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Etymology 2.3 Suffix 2.3.1 Derived terms 3 Norwegian 3.1 Suffix 4 Old English 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Etymology 1 4.2.1 Alternative forms 4.2.2 Suffix 4.3 Etymology 2 4.3.1 Suffix 5 Uzbek 5.1 Suffix 5.1.1 Usage notes

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• (Slang): -in’

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• IPA: /ɪŋ/

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English -ing, -ung.

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-ing

1. Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.

   the making of the film

2. Used to form uncountable nouns from various parts of speech denoting materials or systems of objects considered collectively.

   Roofing is a material that covers a roof.

   Piping is a system of pipes considered collectively.

[edit] Translations

The translations below are a guide only. See individual words for precise translations.

[edit] Etymology 2

An alteration of Old English -ende, Common Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European, cf. German -end, Gothic -and, Sanskrit -ant, Ancient Greek -on, Latin -ans.

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-ing

1. Used to form present participles of verbs.

   You are making a mess.

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• Category:English present participles

[edit] Quotations

• a. 2001, Brian Hall, “Beej's Guide to Network Programming”, “Using Internet Sockets”

  If you are connect()ing to a remote machine […] you can simply call connect(), it'll check to see if the socket is unbound, and will bind() it to an unused local port if necessary.

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[edit] Etymology 3

From Old English -ing.

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-ing

1. Forming (originally masculine) derivative nouns, with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as patronymics or diminutives.

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• -ed

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪŋ/

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-ing f. (plural -ingen, diminutive -inkje or ingetje)

1. -ing; appended to a verb, this suffix is used to refer to the performance of the action of that verb, and the result thereof. The result is a verbal noun which in Dutch is called naamwoord van handeling (noun of action).

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-ing f or m (see below)

1. Used to form verbal nouns from verbs; -ing.

   Han var lei av masing.

   Norwegian

The gender is usually f. if the word ended in -ing in Old Norse and m. if it ended in -ingr or -ingi. “Living” things like islending (“‘Icelander’”) and dumming (“‘idiot’”) are usually m. whilst “dead” things like stråling (“‘radiation’”) and eting (“‘the act of eating’”) usually are f..

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪŋg/

[edit] Etymology 1

Variant of -ung.

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• -ung

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-ing

1. Forming nouns from verbs, indicating action, process or material.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Germanic.

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-ing

1. Forming derivatives of masculine nouns with sense of ‘belonging to, son of’.

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[edit] Uzbek

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-ing (-инг)

1. Second person singular possessive suffix. Used after a noun ending in a consonant. It has the same meaning as sening (“‘your’”) placed before a noun.

   Bu kitobing.

   This is your book.

[edit] Usage notes

When directly addressing another person, it is polite to use the plural -ingiz or -ngiz forms.