Example of Gerunds in English (Gerunds)

The gerund is a verb form that expresses the performance of an action. They always have the ending –ing, which is equivalent to the gerund in Spanish and the endings –ando, –iendo. It is used in the verb conjugations of continuous tenses.

Walking - walking: walk - walking
Swim - swimming: swim - swimming

The gerund is also used when expressing a noun derived from a verbal action:

Reading is important for students. (Reading is important for students)
Anna wants to go at dancing on Friday. (Ana wants to go to the dance on Friday)

The gerund is also written after the following verbs:

1. Enjoy
2. Mind
3. Stop
4. Miss
5. Avoid
6. Consider
7. Remember
8. Appreciate
9. Finish
10. Deny
11. Admit
12. Risk
13. Recall

In this case, the gerund is used to express an abstract impersonal action that corresponds to the infinitive, since after these verbs the form to + verb is never used:

Be careful! You have risk falling down the mountain. (Be careful! You have the risk of fall of the mountain).
The bank denied giving a loan. (The bank refused to give a loan).
Dr. Jones said you recall him

explaining your symptoms. (Dr. Jones said to call him again to explain your symptoms.)

With other verbs, both the gerund and the infinitive can be used interchangeably, to express the verb in the infinitive, being equivalent expressions and with the same translation:

After the fight, the teacher continued to explain the lesson.
After the fight, the teacher continued explaining the lesson.
We begin to work at ten o’clock.
We begin working at ten o’clock.
I'm trying to begin the diet.
I'm trying beginning the diet.

Gerund writing rules. To write a verb in a gerund, add the ending –ing to it. In some cases adding this ending leads to some changes in the verb that it modifies:

• When the verb ends with the letter -e, it is changed to the ending -ing:

Love - loving
Move - moving
Name - naming

• If the verb ends in a double e (-ee), it is not modified and only the ending –ing is added:

Agree - agreeing
See - seeing
Free - freeing

• When the verb ends in –ie or –ye (with the y functioning as a vowel), the diphthong ie becomes and adding the ending –ing:

Dye - dying
Tie - tying
Lie - lying

• If the verb ends in –y, either as a vowel or as a diphthong, only the ending –ing is added:

Cry - crying
Study - studying
Play - playing

• If the verb ends in the vowels –a, –i, –o, –u, only the ending –ing is added:

Ski - skiing
Radio - radioing
Moo –mooing

• When the verb ends in a consonant and the syllable has a stressed short vowel, the consonant before the ending –ing is doubled:

Stop - stopping
Rob - robbing
Spit - spitting

Words ending in h, j, k, q, w, x, v are excepted from this rule; since these letters are never written doubles; combined consonants (such as ch, ck, gh, sh, th, and other sounds) are also excepted. In these cases, only the ending –ing is added:

Draw - drawing
Tax - taxing
Fish - fishing
Starch - starching
Think - thinking

• When the verb ends with the letter –c, the letter k is added before the ending –ing:

Pic - picking
Traffic - trafficking
Panic - panicking

• When the verb ends in a consonant and the syllable has an unstressed vowel, only the ending –ing is added:

Happen - happening
Open - opening
Travel - traveling

• When the last syllable of the verb ending in a consonant has an unstressed vowel, but adding the ending -ing changes the stressed vowel to the last syllable, then the consonant is doubled:

Kidnap - kidnapping
Focus - focusing
Stress - stressing

110 examples of translated gerunds in English:

1. Adjusting
2. Answering
3. Appearing
4. Attaching
5. Baking
6. Becoming (becoming, becoming)
7. Beginning
8. Being
9. Belonging (belonging)
10. Blowing
11. Breeding
12. Building
13. Buying
14. Calling
15. Carrying (carrying)
16. Chaining (chaining)
17. Changing
18. Checking
19. Cheering (clapping)
20. Choosing
21. Combining
22. Communicating
23. Connecting
24. Creating
25. Cutting
26. Decorating
27. Depending (depending)
28. Diving
29. Doing
30. Drawing
31. Driving
32. Eating
33. Electing (choosing)
34. Enjoying
35. Entering (introducing, presenting)
36. Expressing (expressing)
37. Feeling
38. Finding
39. Flapping
40. Flying
41. Forming
42. Giving (giving)
43. Growing
44. Having
45. Heaping
46. Helping
47. Hitting
48. Inviting
49. Joining (joining)
50. Keeping
51. Killing
52. Knowing
53. Learning
54. Leaving (leaving)
55. Listening
56. Listing
57. Living
58. Making (making, manufacturing)
59. Meaning
60. Meeting (gathering)
61. Naming (naming)
62. Needing (needing)
63. Noticing (realizing, finding out)
64. Opening (opening)
65. Opposing
66. Painting
67. Planning
68. Pressing
69. Protecting
70. Reading
71. Recording
72. Referring
73. Remaining (staying)
74. Repairing
75. Returning
76. Running
77. Sampling (showing)
78. Seeing
79. Selling
80. Sending (sending)
81. Serving
82. Shading
83. Shinning (dawning)
84. Showing
85. Sitting
86. Smelling (smelling)
87. Sounding
88. Speaking
89. Spelling (spelling)
90. Splashing
91. Standing
92. Staying
93. Swimming
94. Talking
95. Taping (Typing (on keyboard))
96. Tasting (testing)
97. Telling (narrating)
98. Thinking
99. Transplanting
100. Traveling
101. Tripping
102. Tutoring (Teaching, guiding)
103. Underlining
104. Using
105. Visiting
106. Waiting
107. Winning
108. Working
109. Wrapping
110. Writing