I don't know the meaning of the English word "gerund".
Source: tatoeba (3770763)
Gerund
//ˈd͡ʒɛɹənd//
Synonyms for "gerund" (4 found)
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12 entriesTranslations
71 translations across 36 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- gerundim noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Arabic
2 entries- صِيغَة فِعْل noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- مَصْدَر noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- feili bağlama noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Catalan
2 entries- gerundi noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerundi noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Cebuano
1 entries- punglihongan noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 動名詞 /动名词 noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Czech
1 entries- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Danish
1 entries- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Dutch
2 entries- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Esperanto
3 entries- e-participo (of Esperanto) noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
- gerundio noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerundio noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Finnish
2 entries- gerundi noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerundi noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
French
2 entries- gérondif noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gérondif noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Galician
1 entries- xerundio noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Georgian
2 entries- გერუნდი noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- გერუნდი noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
German
3 entries- Gerundium noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- Gerundium noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
- Vertretungswort noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Greek
1 entries- γερούνδιο noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Hindi
1 entries- क्रियावाचक संज्ञा noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Hungarian
4 entries- deverbális főnév noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- deverbális határozó noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Icelandic
1 entries- sagnarnafnorð noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Ido
1 entries- gerundio noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Italian
2 entries- gerundio noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerundio noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Japanese
1 entries- 動名詞 noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Korean
1 entries- 동명사 noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Latin
1 entries- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Norman
1 entries- nom vèrbal noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Norwegian
2 entries- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Polish
2 entries- odsłownik noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- rzeczownik odczasownikowy noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Portuguese
2 entries- gerúndio noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerúndio noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Romanian
1 entries- gerunziu noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Russian
3 entries- геру́ндий noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- геру́ндий noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
- дееприча́стие noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Spanish
2 entries- gerundio noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerundio noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Swedish
2 entries- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerundium noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Tagalog
2 entries- pandiwang makangalan noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- pangngalang-diwa noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Thai
2 entries- รูปกริยาเป็นนาม noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- อาการนาม noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
Turkish
4 entries- durum ulacı noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
- sıla sıygası noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
- ulaç noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- ulaç noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
Welsh
4 entries- cyfrediad noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- cyfrediad noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
- gerwnd noun (verb form functioning as a verbal noun)
- gerwnd noun (verb form functioning as an adverb)
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I don't know what the English word "gerund" means.
Source: tatoeba (12685596)
Compounds in which gerunds are the second element look exactly like compounds in which present participles are the second element, but different principles of hyphenation apply.
Source: wiktionary
Like any noun, the gerund functions as a subject, direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition, or predicate nominative. The gerund phrase is made up of the present participle ("-ing") and can contain an object and/or a modifier (and sometimes many modifiers). The gerund is a verbal noun.
Source: wiktionary
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