A suffix forming the present participle of German verbs, analogous to English -ing.
köken: From Middle High German -ende, from Old High German -enti, -anti, from Proto-West Germanic *-andī, from Proto-Germanic *-andz (present participle ending). Cognate with Dutch -end, Old English -ende. See English -and, -ing for more. The gerundive use of the present participle goes back to the dative form of the Middle High German infinitive, which was sometimes enhanced with -d- through…
-ing; suffix denoting the gerund and present participle of a verb
köken: Inherited from Old French -ant, from a merger of Latin -antem, -entem (present participle suffix) with Latin -andum, -endum (gerundive suffix). Compare Italian -ante, -ando; Spanish -ante, -ando.
to be, to exist · Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it. · Used to form the perfect tense of the active voice of some verbs, together with a past participle.
çekim: geçmiş waren · ortaç geweest · şimdiki is · ulaç zijnd
eş: wezen, bennen
köken: From Middle Dutch sijn, from Old Dutch sīn. The infinitive zijn along with the words is and zij (present indicative and subjunctive) derive ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”), which had no separate infinitive in Germanic. The modern infinitive was probably back-formed in late Old Dutch from the first-person plural subjunctive sīn (“we be”), since this form had become identical…
Forms the present active participle of a verb, which is normally used like an adjective. The English equivalent is normally -ing, but sometimes also -ish. · Forms an adjective from a noun.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-pa, from Proto-Uralic *-pa. In the participial sense, the Finnish form descends from the weak-grade variant *-ba, which was eventually extended by analogy to all verbs. The original strong grade remains as -pa in a few words (e.g. syöpä, käypä, kaikkivoipa), but these have lost their verbal meaning. The adjective ending has also been generalized to its weak form (*-ba) through…
kirjoittaa (“to write”) + -va → kirjoittava (“writing, that writes”)
force; strength; power; vigour. · power: product of equal factors. · power: rate of doing work.
köken: Borrowed from Middle Khmer kuṃlāṃṅa (“strength; vigour; brawn; force; power; might; energy; clients; dependents; servants; helper; aid; ally”), Angkorian Old Khmer kanlāṅ, kanlaṅ (“strength; force; power; one who is strong or powerful”), or Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer kanlaṅ, kanlāṅ (“strength; force; power; one who is strong or powerful”); compare Modern Khmer កម្លាំង (kɑmlang). Cognate with Lao…
to be; to currently be in a state or have a characteristic (Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes a temporary state of being.) · forms the continuous aspect, together with a present participle · to stay, to live or spending time.
çekim: geçmiş estiguí · ortaç estat · şimdiki està
köken: Inherited from Latin stāre (“to stand”). Where the velar infix, which is characteristic chiefly for the second conjugation, comes from is unknown.
to be · there be (there is, there are etc.) · Used with yn to form various tenses with progressive or stative meaning
çekim: geçmiş buwyd · şimdiki mae
köken: From Middle Welsh bot, from Proto-Brythonic *bod, from Proto-Celtic *butā (cf. Cornish bos, Breton bout), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become”); all the b- initial forms are from the same root. The vowel-initial forms as well as sy(dd) are from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”). The present-progressive forms with yd- (ydwyf, etc.), and hence the colloquial present-affirmative forms…
köken: From Old Irish bí. The present indicative independent affirmative analytic form is from Old Irish at·tá, from Proto-Celtic *ad-tāyeti (compare Welsh taw (“there is”)), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“stand”). The present dependent is from Old Irish fuil, eventually from Proto-Celtic *weleti "to see", while the past dependent and subjunctive is from roib, an augmented ro-form of at·tá.