-ing English

Meaning -ing meaning

What does -ing mean?

-ing suffix

— Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.

— Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.

— materials, systems of objects

-ing suffix

— to form present participles

-ing suffix

— Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as patronymics or diminutives. No longer productive in either sense.

— Having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of

Synonyms -ing synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as -ing?

-ing English » English

-ly

when

-ment

-ful

-ed