Wandelend

Wandelend is in Dutch the present participle (verbal adjective) of the verb wandelen, meaning “walking” or “on foot.” It describes the action or state of walking and can function both as an attributive adjective and as an adverbial participle in a clause.

In attributive use, wandelend may describe a person or thing in motion, for example: de wandelende reiziger (the traveler who is walking). In predicative or adverbial use, it expresses the manner of an action, as in hij liep wandelend door het park (he walked through the park, in a walking manner).

Grammatically, wandelend is formed from the verb stem wandel- with the suffix -end, which is the standard way Dutch forms present participles. This participle often appears in descriptive or narrative writing to convey motion or tempo and can be found in various compound phrases, such as wandelpad (walking path) and wandeltocht (walking tour).

Wandelend is related to wilde to slightly broader vocabulary around walking, including wandelen (to walk) and wandelaar (walker). Its use tends to be more common in descriptive, literary, or travel writing, where the author wishes to emphasize the act or experience of walking rather than the mere fact of moving.