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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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    An -ing form is termed gerund when it behaves as a verb within a clause (so that it may be modified by an adverb or have an object); but the resulting clause as a whole (sometimes consisting of only one word, the gerund itself) functions as a noun within the larger sentence.

  6. 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).

  7. 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 .

  8. Influences on the Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish is a Romance language which developed from Vulgar Latin in central areas of the Iberian peninsula and has absorbed many loanwords from other Romance languages like French, Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, and Italian. Spanish also has lexical influences from Arabic and from Paleohispanic languages such as Iberian, Celtiberian and Basque.

  9. Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language.

  10. Metathesis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Metathesis may also involve interchanging non-contiguous sounds, known as nonadjacent metathesis, long-distance metathesis, [1] or hyperthesis, [3] as shown in these examples of metathesis sound change from Latin to Spanish: Latin pa r abo l a > Spanish pa l ab r a "word".

  11. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...