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  2. Spanish verbs - Wikipedia

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    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. It is created by adding the following endings to the stem of the verb (i.e. the infinitive without the last two letters): -ar verbs: -ando.

  3. -ing - Wikipedia

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    -ing is a suffix used to make one of the inflected forms of English verbs. This verb form is used as a present participle , as a gerund , and sometimes as an independent noun or adjective . The suffix is also found in certain words like morning and ceiling , and in names such as Browning .

  4. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

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    The suffixes "-ling" and "-ing" are also used to some extent: and (duck) -> älling (duckling) kid (fawn) -> killing (goat kid) gås (goose) -> gässling (gosling) myndig (of age) -> myndling (person that is not of age, i.e. under 18) halv (half) + växa (grow) -> halvväxing (semi-grown up boy)

  5. Gerund - Wikipedia

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    The name is derived from Late Latin gerundium, meaning "which is to be carried out". 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. The term " -ing form" is often used in English to refer to the gerund specifically.

  6. Spanish irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    Spanish verbs are a complex area of Spanish grammar, with many combinations of tenses, aspects and moods (up to fifty conjugated forms per verb). Although conjugation rules are relatively straightforward, a large number of verbs are irregular .

  7. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    M'/Mac/Mc/Mck/Mhic/Mic – ( Irish, Scottish, and Manx Gaelic) "son". Both Mac and Mc are sometimes written M ac and M c (with superscript ac or c ). In some names, Mc is pronounced Mac. Mala – ( Kurdish) "House of" [citation needed] Na – ณ ( Thai) "at" [citation needed] Ngā – ( Te Reo Māori) "the (plural)"

  8. Regular and irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    These rules involve the addition of inflectional endings (-s, -[e]d, -ing), together with certain morphophonological rules about how those endings are pronounced, and certain rules of spelling (such as the doubling of certain consonants).

  9. Pronunciation of English ng - Wikipedia

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    NG-coalescence. In Old English and Middle English, any ng sequence stood for two sounds: the velar nasal [ ŋ] followed by the voiced velar stop [ ɡ]. The velar nasal did not have a phonemic status, being a mere allophone of /n/, as in Spanish or Italian (or as in Modern Standard English in words such as Bengali or Vancouver, where there is a ...

  10. Spanish grammar - Wikipedia

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    It is utilized in a variety of Spanish grammar contexts, including the following forms: reflexive pronoun, reciprocal pronoun, replacive pronoun (direct and indirect object), intrinsic pronoun (without the pronoun, the structure is ungrammatical), "derivational" pronoun, and "stylistic" pronoun.

  11. List of banks in Europe - Wikipedia

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    ING Group is one of the biggest banks in the world, and consistently ranks among the top 30 largest banks globally. With a history dating back to 1737, Van Lanschot Kempen is the oldest independent bank in the Netherlands , [51] the oldest independent bank in the Benelux [52] [53] and one of the oldest independent banks in the world.