Examples of Verbal Noun Use in Other Languages
In Old Irish, the verbal noun is used in the progressive construction:
- At-tá in fer oc marbad ind loích.
Literally, "the man is at the killing of the warrior", i.e. "the man is killing the warrior". The verbal noun is formed rather unpredictably in a number of different ways (and not necessarily from the same stem as the verb).
Macedonian verbal nouns (глаголска именка, glagolska imenka) are formed by adding the suffix -ње to the verb form. Example of this is: игра (igra, he plays) — играње (igranje, playing). These forms are derived from verbs. Similar forms exist in other Slavic languages such as Russian, Czech, Polish, etc.
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