verbal noun

Noun

 * 1)  A noun that is morphologically related to a verb and similar to it in meaning; in English, it contrasts with the gerund and the deverbal noun.

Usage notes
Traditional grammarians often used the term "verbal noun" as a synonym for gerund.
 * Brisk walking is good exercise.

It is a pure noun with no verbal force, so it cannot take an object or an adverb (as a gerund can), however, it can be part of a possessive construction (the visiting of a friend) and it can take an adjective (fast driving) as other nouns can. On the other hand, it still refers to the abstract act, process, or occurrence implied in the verb, as opposed to—for example—its result, as a deverbal noun does.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Breton:
 * Catalan: nom verbal
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: podstatné jméno slovesné, verbální substantivum
 * Danish: verbalsubstantiv
 * Dutch: verbaalsubstantief, verbaalnomen
 * Faroese: sagnarnavnorð
 * Finnish: verbin nimitapa
 * French: nom verbal
 * Georgian: სახელზმნა
 * German: Verbalnomen,
 * Hebrew: שם פעולה
 * Hungarian: igéből képzett főnév, deverbális főnév, nomen actionis
 * Irish: ainm briathartha
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: масдар
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: глаголска именка
 * Malayalam:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: үйлт нэр, тэмдэг үйл үг
 * Mongolian: ᠦᠶᠢᠯᠡᠲᠦ ᠨᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ, ᠲᠡᠮᠳᠡᠭ ᠦᠢᠯᠡ ᠦᠭᠡ
 * Norman: nom vèrbal
 * Norwegian: verbalsubstantiv
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: substantivo verbal
 * Romanian: substantiv verbal
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ainmear gnìomhaireach
 * Slovene: glágolnik
 * Spanish: nombre verbal
 * Swedish: substantifierat verb
 * Tajik: масдар
 * Telugu: క్రియావిశేష్యము
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ad-fiil, ,
 * Ukrainian: віддієслі́вний іме́нник
 * Urdu:
 * Welsh: