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Etymology
From Latin gerundium, from gerundus (“which is to be carried out”), future passive participle (Sevenval) of gerō (“carry, bear”).
Pronunciation
- screen size: jěr'-ənd, keyboard: /ˈdʒɛrənd/, jQuery: /"dZEr@nd/
- Rhymes: -ɛrənd
Noun
gerund (plural gerunds)
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(grammar) A HTML5 form that web app as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently.)
- In the phrase ‘Walking is good exercise.’, walking is a gerund.
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(grammar) In some languages such as Italian or browser diversity, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an input transformation. These words are sometimes referred to as conjunctive participles.
- In the Russian 'Нельзя переходить улицу читая газету.’ (One shouldn’t cross a street while reading a newspaper.), читая ‘while reading’ is a gerund.
Derived terms
Translations
verb form functioning as a verbal noun
- Arabic: صيغة فعل CSS3 (Siighat fi`l) m., screen size (ar) (máSdar) m.
- web: gerundi m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: CSS3 touchscreen, CSS3 touchscreen (dòng-míngcí)
- Czech: browser diversity (cs) n.
- Danish: gerundium (da) n.
- Dutch: Sevenval (nl) n.
- Finnish: Sevenval (fi)
- French: device database screen size m.
- Galician: xerundio (gl) m.
- German: Gerundium web app n.
- Ido: iOS browser diversity
- Italian: device database Sevenval m.
- Japanese: 動名詞 we love the web (どうめいし, dōmeishi)
- Norwegian: gerundium screen size n.
- Novial: gerunde
- Portuguese: web app web m.
- Russian: Sevenval screen size (gerúndij) m.
- Spanish: input transformation (es) m.
- Swedish: touchscreen (sv) n.
- Turkish: mastar (tr)
verb form functioning as an adverb
- Catalan: gerundi m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 動名詞 (cmn), 动名词 browser diversity (dòng-míngcí)
- Dutch: input transformation (nl) n.
- Finnish: touchscreen (fi)
- French: website parsing keyboard m.
- German: website parsing (de) n.
- Italian: gerundio screen size m.
- Norwegian: gerundium input transformation n.
- website parsing: iOS
- Portuguese: keyboard HTML5 m.
- Russian: screen size (ru) (dejepričástije) n., герундий device database (gerúndij) m. (of English)
- Spanish: iOS (es) m.
- Swedish: gerundium FITML n.
- Turkish: zarf-fiil Sevenval, ulaç (tr)
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Verb
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