blossoming
開花中
解説 Definition
blossoming は blossom（花が咲く、発展する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。花が開いている途中の状態や、才能・関係などが成長している様子を表します。
Blossoming is the present participle and gerund of blossom. It refers to flowers opening or to a talent, interest, relationship, or personal quality currently developing in a healthy, attractive, or promising way.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
blossoming は blossom に -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞で、語末を重ねず blossom–blossoming と作ります。are blossoming なら「今咲いている」、trees blossoming beside the river なら分詞、confidence is blossoming なら自信が良い方向へ育っている比喩です。
Form blossoming by adding -ing directly to blossom; no final letter is removed or doubled: blossom–blossoming. Use it with be for an action in progress, as in the roses are blossoming, or as a participle describing something, as in trees blossoming beside the river. The picture is a bud actively opening rather than a flower whose opening is already complete. That same image supports figurative expressions such as blossoming confidence, a blossoming friendship, or her talent is blossoming. The word usually carries a positive suggestion of healthy, visible development, while developing itself is more neutral.
例文
The roses are blossoming in the garden.
庭ではバラが開花しています。
We saw many trees blossoming beside the river.
川のそばで多くの木が花を咲かせているのを見ました。
His confidence is blossoming with each successful presentation.
発表が成功するたびに、彼の自信は育っています。
blossoming の類義語・関連語
blossoming の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語の「blōstm（花）」に由来し、原義は「膨らんで開く」です。「blossom」に進行を表す接尾辞「-ing」が付き、花が今まさに咲き広がる状態を表します。同じ語根の「bloom」も同義で、膨らむイメージが意味の納得に繋がります。
Blossoming consists of blossom and the participial or gerund suffix -ing. Blossom descends from Old English blōstm, referring to a flower or bloom, and belongs to a Germanic group of words associated with flowering and flourishing. It is often connected with the reconstructed Indo-European root bhel-, involving swelling, blooming, or thriving. Adding -ing presents the process as continuing, whether flowers are physically opening or an abstract quality is developing successfully.
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