starting
始めます
解説 Definition
starting は start(始める、始まる)の現在分詞・動名詞です。「始めている」「始まっている」や「始めること」という意味で使われます。
The present participle or gerund of start, used for an action or event that is beginning, or for the act of beginning something. It can describe either a person initiating an activity or an event coming into progress.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 start に -ing をそのまま付けた現在分詞・動名詞で、語尾は「ティング」に近く発音します。be starting なら「始めつつある・始まりつつある」、starting a book なら「本を読み始める」、starting now なら「今から開始する」と、動き出す場面を結び付けて覚えます。
Starting is formed by adding -ing directly to start; no letter is dropped or doubled. Connect it with the image of an action moving from rest into progress. In “I am starting now,” it forms the present progressive and shows that the beginning is happening now. In “starting a new book,” start takes an object and means beginning to read it. As a gerund, as in “Starting early helps,” the whole form names the act of beginning.
例文
I am starting now.
私は今始めています。
The class is starting soon.
授業はもうすぐ始まります。
She is starting a new book.
彼女は新しい本を読み始めています。
starting の類義語・関連語
starting の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語 styrtan(跳ぶ、動き出す)が語源。原義は「突然飛び上がる」で、そこから「動作を開始する」意味に発展。関連語:start(開始)、startle(びっくりさせる)。何かが急に動き出すイメージが「始める」に繋がった。
Starting is the -ing form of start. Start entered English from Old English styrtan, meaning “to leap up” or “move suddenly,” and later developed the broader sense of beginning an action or process. The suffix -ing forms present participles and gerunds, allowing the verb to describe an activity in progress or to function as a noun naming the activity.
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