running
走っている
解説 Definition
running は run（走る）の現在分詞・動名詞です。「走っている」という進行中の動作を表します。人や動物が実際に走っている場面でよく使います。
Running is the present participle and gerund of run. In the target sense, it describes a person or animal moving quickly on foot, especially as an action currently in progress, or it names the activity of moving in that way.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 run に -ing を付ける際、短母音＋子音で終わるため最後の n を重ねて running とします。be running なら「走っている」、running を主語にすれば「走ること」です。runing と一字にせず、He is running、a dog running fast のような動作中の場面と nn を結び付けましょう。
Connect running with the base verb run. When -ing is added, the final n is doubled because run ends in one consonant after a short stressed vowel: run becomes running, not runing. In “He is running,” the word is a present participle and shows an action in progress. As the subject of a sentence, as in “Running is good exercise,” it is a gerund naming the activity. Picture a person in a park or a dog moving fast, and link that active scene with the double n.
例文
He is running in the park.
彼は公園で走っています。
The dog is running fast.
その犬は速く走っています。
They are running to school.
彼らは学校へ走っています。
running の類義語・関連語
派生語
紛らわしい語
running の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語 rinnan（流れる、走る）の現在分詞形。ゲルマン祖語 *rinnaną（流れる）に遡り、原義は水が流れること。関連語：run（走る）、Rhine（ライン川＝流れる川）。液体が流れる様子から人や動物が素早く移動する意味へ広がった。
Running is formed from run by doubling the final n and adding -ing. Run descends from Old English rinnan or related forms meaning “to run or flow,” with roots in the Germanic language family. The older verb could describe the movement of liquid as well as rapid movement. English later developed the familiar human and animal sense. The spelling rule produces running because run has a short stressed vowel followed by one final consonant.
同じレベルの英単語をもっと
外部辞書で調べる
この単語を英単語クイズで覚えよう