ending

Plural

endings

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A termination or conclusion.

2. 2.The last part of something.

   • The film has an unexpected ending.
   • The book has a happy ending.

3. 3.The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").

   • Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.
   • Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.present participle and gerund of end

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