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Word: -ing (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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  • Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ?son of, belonging to?, as patronymics or diminutives.
  • Having a specifed quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of
  • Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.
  • Used to form present participles of verbs.
  • Used to form parts of speech denoting materials or systems of objects considered collectively.

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