Schietende

Schietende is the present participle of the Dutch verb schieten, meaning to shoot or fire. Used as an adjective or in participial phrases, schietende describes something that is in the act of shooting or that relates to shooting. The form is typically used attributively to modify a noun, for example de schietende troepen (the troops that are firing) or een schietende eenheid. When referring to a completed action, Dutch uses the past participle geschoten, as in de troepen hebben geschoten.

Use and nuance: Dutch does not rely on a continuous aspect in the same way as English; the sense of ongoing action can be conveyed with the present participle or with constructions like aan het schieten (in the act of shooting). The present participle inflects for number and gender like other adjectives: de schietende man, de schietende mannen. In many contexts, schieten as a verb can also denote other shooting-related senses, such as firing a weapon in combat or training, as opposed to non-violent meanings.

Context and frequency: The term appears primarily in descriptive, technical, or journalistic texts that describe actions or events involving firing. It is not a standalone lexical item with a fixed meaning beyond its derivation from schieten, and its exact shade of meaning depends on context and accompanying nouns.

See also: schieten, geschoten, aan het schieten.