Word.ws English Dictionary

gerundal

gerundal adjective: being or pertaining to a gerund.

Adjective

gerundal (not comparable)

  1. Being or pertaining to a gerund.
    • The difference between these forms is, however, purely phonetic, since the gerund may also be mutated and the infinitive may appear in gerundal form ...1943, Clarence Paschall, The Semasiology of Words Derived from the Indo-European *nem-
    • c. Cartier's defeating Dugué is significant (gerundal or verbal noun clause)
      d. Nelson saw Cartier defeating Dugué (participial clause)1985, Timothy Shopen, Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2, Complex Constructions, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 43
    Synonyms:
    gerundial, gerundive

Synonyms of gerundal

Origin of gerundal

From gerund + -al.

Words formed from gerundal

Questions about gerundal

What does gerundal mean?
Gerundal means being or pertaining to a gerund.
What part of speech is gerundal?
Gerundal is an adjective.

Words near gerundal in the dictionary

  1. gerund-grinder
  2. gerund-grinders
  3. gerund-grinding
  4. gerund-participle
  5. gerund-participles
  6. gerundal
  7. gerundally
  8. gerundial
  9. gerundially
  10. gerundival
  11. gerundive

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gerundal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gerundal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gerundal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.