Timeline for Can one use the present progressive or gerund like an adjective?
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| Jun 26, 2019 at 17:02 | comment | added | aparente001 | @pablodf76 - Oh, I thought it was going to be a word as long as a line with no spaces! I will ask my spouse later if there's something more compact. Thanks. The funniest most charming long German word that I know so far is "Streicheleinheiten" -- used in the context of petting your needy cat -- according to my spouse it means "petting units," as in, Has (name of cat) gotten enough petting units? | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 16:49 | comment | added | Gustavson | Other examples: agua corriente, aguas danzantes, animales rumiantes | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 16:10 | comment | added | pablodf76 | @aparente001 I believe that would be »Der um das Haus angeregt herumrennende Hund frisst.« | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 14:35 | comment | added | user0721090601 | @walen I'd actually view those more as attributes, they're kinda like titles almost. Absolutely agree on está corriendo, I added that footnote precisely because the brevity of the phrase in simple present really made it sound like a refrán :-) | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 14:26 | comment | added | aparente001 | @pablodf76 - That's lovely. Although I don't think that's a dog I'd want to live in the same house with. // Could you give us the German as well, please? | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 12:56 | comment | added | pablodf76 | Aside: Spanish shows the last stage of deverbalization of the present-active participle; English is in a middle stage, with the -ing form allowed to appear rather freely as a noun modifier, but only alone; in German the so-called "Partizip I" (whose origin is the same as the Spanish active participle) allows full use of arguments, so that the participle can function as the head of a preprended subordinate phrase (as if you said: "The round-the-house-excitedly-running dog eats"). | |
| Jun 26, 2019 at 3:02 | history | edited | user0721090601 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2019 at 2:48 | history | answered | user0721090601 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |