Definition, Betydelse & Anagram | Engelska ordet GERUND

Definition av GERUND

1. (lingvistik) gerundium

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• In English, the gerund has the properties of both verb and noun, such as being modifiable by an adverb and being able to take a direct object.
• Verb phrases generally are divided among two types: finite, of which the head of the phrase is a finite verb; and nonfinite, where the head is a nonfinite verb, such as an infinitive, participle or gerund.
• A nonfinite verb such as an infinitive, gerund, or participle functioning as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
• Generally, the only inflected forms of an English verb are a third person singular present tense form ending in -s, a past tense (also called preterite), a past participle (which may be the same as the past tense), and a form ending in -ing that serves as a present participle and gerund.
• Although in English grammar the gerund refers to the -ing form of the verb used as a noun, in Spanish the term refers to a verb form that behaves more like an adverb.
• Also in Brazil, 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 most dialects of Portugal: está chovendo vs.
• The auxiliary is inflected for tense and 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 aspect with other verbal properties:.
• The second used beon/wesan, a preposition, and a gerund (-unge), and has been variously proposed as being influenced by similar forms in Latin and French or British Celtic, though evidence one way or another is scant.
• In Neapolitan there are four finite moods: indicative, subjunctive, conditional and imperative, and three non-finite modes: infinitive, gerund and participle.
• The infinitive (and gerund) form "-a" is standard in Pennsylvania German and other forms of general Upper German.
• Other terms that have been used to refer to converbs include adverbial participle, conjunctive participle, gerund, gerundive and verbal adverb (Ylikoski 2003).
• A non-finite clause is similar, except that the verb must be in a non-finite form (such as an infinitive, participle, gerund or gerundive), and it is consequently much more likely that there will be no subject expressed, i.
• When used as a gerund or present participle, the -ing form is a non-finite verb, which behaves like a (finite) verb in that it forms a verb phrase, taking typical verb dependents and modifiers such as objects and adverbs.
• The alveolar affricate has a marginal phonological status and is found in some interjections (such as teʼcu! "what a mess!"), loanwords and non-finite verbal forms with the gerund prefix cese- (Tsukida 2005: 292, 297).
• The verbal noun (gerund) -yng (-ing) differentiated itself from the present participle -and , in Middle Scots, for example —-the motto of the Gordon Highlanders.
• Some Ethiopian Semitic languages, including Tigrinya, have a fourth possibility, known (somewhat confusingly) as the gerund or gerundive, which like the perfective is conjugated with suffixes only.
• While it is easy enough to find all the occurrences of "enjoy", and to sort them according to the part-of-speech category of the following word, it requires additional work to find all cases of verbs followed by a gerund, since the SARA index of the BNC does not include part-of-speech categories such as "all verbs" or "all V-ing forms".
• Encebollado (Spanish: onionized, gerund of “encebollar” to onionize/to make in onions) is an onion-dressed fish stew from Ecuador, where it is regarded as a national dish.
• Some catenative verbs are followed by either a to-infinitive or a gerund, either with or without a difference in meaning between the two structures:.
• The feminine rhyme is rare in a monosyllabic language such as English, but the gerund and participle suffix -ing, which adds an additional stressless syllable, can make it readily available.

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