changing
変化する
解説 Definition
changing は change（変わる、変える）の現在分詞・動名詞です。ここでは「変化している」「変化すること」という意味で、状況や気持ちなどが別の状態になるときに使います。
Changing is the present-participle or gerund form of change. It describes something becoming different over time, someone making something different, or the process of moving from one condition, plan, feeling, or situation to another.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 change「変わる、変える」の語末の黙字 e を落として -ing を付け、changing とします。発音は /ˈtʃeɪndʒɪŋ/。The weather is changing のように be 動詞と組み合わせれば「今、変化している」、changing plans なら「変わりつつある予定」と覚えます。
Changing comes from change. Drop the final silent e before adding -ing: change becomes changing, pronounced /ˈtʃeɪndʒɪŋ/. Connect it with a visible transition from one state to another. In The weather is changing, the be verb plus changing describes a process happening now. As a gerund, changing can name the process itself, and before a noun it can describe something that does not stay the same, as in changing plans or a changing city. Remember that change may be intransitive, “become different,” or transitive, “make something different.”
例文
The weather is changing.
天気が変わってきています。
My plans are changing today.
今日、私の予定は変わりつつあります。
The city is changing fast.
その町は急速に変化しています。
changing の類義語・関連語
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changing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
changing は change に動名詞・現在分詞の -ing が付いた形です。change は古フランス語 changier、さらに後期ラテン語 cambiare にさかのぼり、背景にはケルト系語根 *kemb-「曲げる」があるので、「向きを変える」から「変化する」になったと考えると分かりやすいです。関連語は exchange, interchangeable。
Changing is formed from change by dropping its final silent e and adding the participial suffix -ing. Change entered English through Old French changier and is related to Late Latin cambiare, meaning “to exchange or alter.” The further origin is often connected with a Celtic source associated with bending or turning, though the exact early history is not completely certain. Modern changing retains the central idea of movement from one state or form to another.
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