gerundium

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛrundɪjum]
• Hyphenation: ge‧run‧dium

gerundium n (relational adjective gerundiální or gerundijní)

1. (grammar) a gerund

Officially, there are no gerunds in the Czech language. However, verbal nouns (podstatná jména slovesná) constitute the equivalent, often even in translations of gerunds (i.e. jumping = skákání, moving = hýbání, creating = vytváření).

• “gerundium”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Latin gerundium, from gerundus (“which is to be carried out”), the gerundive of gerō (“bear, carry”).

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• IPA^(key): /ɣeːˈrʏn.di.ʏm/

gerundium n (plural gerundiums or gerundia, diminutive gerundiumpje n)

1. gerund

From gerendus (“which is to be carried out”), future passive participle (gerundive) of gerō (“carry, bear”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡɛˈrʊn.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒeˈrun̪.d̪i.um]

gerundium n (genitive gerundiī or gerundī); second declension

1. (grammar) the gerund, in latin a verbal noun inflected in the accusative, genitive, dative and ablative cases used to convey different verbal meanings. Not to be confused with the gerundīvum (future passive participle).

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• gerundīvus

• gerō
• gerula
• gerulum
• gerulus

• “gerundium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gerundium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin gerundium.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛˈrun.djum/
• Rhymes: -undjum
• Syllabification: ge‧run‧dium

gerundium n

1. (grammar) gerund

   Synonym: odsłownik

• gerundium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gerundium in Polish dictionaries at PWN