ongoing

English

Etymology

From on +‎ going, related to the verb go on.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

ongoing (not comparable)

1. continuing, permanent
2. presently or currently happening; being in progress

Translations

continuing, permanent

• Finnish: jatkuva (fi)
• French: continuel (fr), permanent (fr), continu (fr)
• German: ständig (de), permanent (de), andauernd (de), anhaltend (de), immerwährend, fortlaufend (de)
• Italian: continuo (it)
• Korean: 지속적인 (jisokjeogin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pågå

• Polish: w toku
• Portuguese: contínuo (pt), em curso
• Romanian: neîntrerupt (ro), continuu (ro), necontenit (ro)
• Russian: постоя́нный (ru) (postojánnyj), непреры́вный (ru) (neprerývnyj), продолжа́ющийся (ru) (prodolžájuščijsja)
• Spanish: continuo (es)

presently or currently happening; being in progress

• Dutch: lopend (nl)
• Finnish: meneillään oleva
• French: actuel (fr), en cours (fr)
• German: laufend (de), gegenwärtig stattfindend, derzeitig stattfindend
• Italian: attuale (it)
• Korean: 진행중인 (jinhaengjung-in)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pågående (no)

• Polish: w toku
• Portuguese: em andamento, corrente (pt), em curso
• Russian: происходя́щий в настоя́щее вре́мя (proisxodjáščij v nastojáščeje vrémja)
• Spanish: actual (es)
• Swedish: pågående (sv)

Noun

ongoing (plural ongoings)

1. Something that is going on; a happening.
   • 1961, Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure

     We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.

Anagrams

• going on