Ending

/ˈɛndɪŋ/ · noun

Meaning

A termination or conclusion..

Definitions by Sense

1. A termination or conclusion.
2. The last part of something.
3. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
4. present participle and gerund of end

Example Sentences

The book has a happy ending.

The film has an unexpected ending.

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

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.

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