-ing
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative spellings
- (Slang): -in’
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪŋ/
[edit] Etymology 1
From Old English -ing, -ung.
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-ing
- Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.
- the making of the film
- 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
- Used to form present participles of verbs.
- You are making a mess.
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[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
- Forming (originally masculine) derivative nouns, with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as patronymics or diminutives.
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[edit] Dutch
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪŋ/
[edit] Etymology
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-ing f. (plural -ingen, diminutive -inkje or ingetje)
- -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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[edit] Norwegian
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-ing f or m (see below)
- Used to form verbal nouns from verbs; -ing.
- Han var lei av masing.
- Norwegian
- Han var lei av masing.
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..
[edit] Old English
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪŋg/
[edit] Etymology 1
Variant of -ung.
[edit] Alternative forms
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-ing
[edit] Etymology 2
From Germanic.
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-ing
- Forming derivatives of masculine nouns with sense of ‘belonging to, son of’.
[edit] Uzbek
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-ing (-инг)
- 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.
- Bu kitobing.
[edit] Usage notes
When directly addressing another person, it is polite to use the plural -ingiz or -ngiz forms.