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[Closed] Thunder and lightning (grammar)

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The kids and I got caught in a rain storm today, the lad commented that it was raining and thundering. Then we wondered, was it lightninging as well?


 
Posted : 24/08/2018 10:48 pm
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...very very frightening, Mama Mia....


 
Posted : 24/08/2018 11:32 pm
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Had this before as a translator.  It's a verb in Spanish (relampaguear, relampaguendo etc) but there's no easy English translation. Lightning was flashing...


 
Posted : 24/08/2018 11:47 pm
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In German too. Es blitzt - it is lightninging! As in Donner und Blitzen. Not just 2 of Santa's' reindeer. but also thunder and lightening.

Or else it is flashing, as in you just got 3 points on your licence.


 
Posted : 25/08/2018 12:27 am
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Lightning is a gerund from lighten originally - so a verbal noun like "the coming" whereas raining in this context is a present participle so which having the same ending, they are different.


 
Posted : 25/08/2018 1:31 am
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The wind is windding.


 
Posted : 25/08/2018 6:55 am

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