-ing

Definitions

1. Used to form nouns or noun-like words (or elements of noun phrases) from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action.
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2. As true nouns.
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3. Used to form present participles of verbs.
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4. Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.
   idiomatic, morpheme
5. Forming nouns having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of
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6. As gerunds.
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7. Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.
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Equivalents

29 more languages

Bosanski-an-o-енка

Català-ant-ent

Dansk-ende-ing

Ελληνικά-ποίηση

Esperanto-ado-anta

Eesti-v

فارسیـش

Suomi-minen-nti-va

Hrvatski-an-o-енка

Magyar-ó

Bahasa Indonesiaber-

Íslenska-andi-ing

Italiano-ando-ante-endo-ente-tura+ 2 more

日本語-こと-のつつディル+ 1 more

ភាសាខ្មែរកំពុងការ

Kurdî-an-ên-ende-ing-ober-+ 3 more

Latina-ens-ns

Bahasa Melayu-an

Nederlands-end-ing-systeem-werk+ 1 more

Polski-ący-anie-cie-owanie+ 1 more

Português-ando-endo-indo

Română-ând-ind

Русский-ащий-ающий-еющий-ущий-ующий-щий-ющий-ящий-яющий+ 6 more

Српски-an-o-енка

Svenska-ande-ende-ing

தமிழ்-அல்

ไทยกำลัง

Türkçe-an-en-iyor

Українська-анка-во-енка-ливий-ьба+ 2 more

Examples

“My hearing is not good.”

“I have⟳ had several meetings with him.”

“Smoking marijuana cigarettes daily is bad for your health.”

“She has a habit of sleeping late.”

“I like⟳ meeting people.”

“Roofing is material that is used to roof.”

“Clothing is material with which one is clothed.”

“The piping is a system of pipes considered collectively.”

“Rolling stones gather no moss.”

“My new cabin, which is going to look⟳ over the lake, is getting a brand new roof this winter.”

“I wondered what time the play⟳ was starting.”

“Anybody touching this wire will get⟳ a deadly shock⟳.”

“When it occurred, I was flying to New York a great deal⟳.”

“We were boogieing from midnight until three o’clock in the morning.”

“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 unworthy, and will bind⟳() it to an unused local port if necessary.”

“Ealing, Dorking, Reading, Worthing”

“Browning, Channing, Ewing”

“Middle English *bunt + -ing → bunting”

“skill + -ing → shilling”

“fourth + -ing → farthing”

“sweet + -ing → sweeting”

“white + -ing → whiting”

“geld + -ing → gelding”

“beïng, doïng, goïng”

“skiïng, tryïng”

CEFR level