endEndung

EndEndung is a term used in linguistic discussions to refer to the final morpheme, or suffix, that attaches to a word stem and conveys grammatical or lexical information. The name combines the German words End (end) and Endung (ending) and is sometimes used in didactic or computational contexts to emphasize the position of this element at the right edge of the form. It is not a universally standardized label in all grammars, but it appears in niche texts and in discussions of morphology and natural language processing.

In practice, an endEndung is the segment that remains after the stem when a word is inflected or derived. In English, examples include -s in works or dogs (marking third-person singular or plural), -ed in walked, and -ing in running; in German, endings such as -e, -en, -es can mark case, number, tense, or mood depending on the word class and the grammatical system in question. The concept is useful for illustrating how information is packed into word final segments and for contrasting endings with other word-building elements like roots or infixes.

In computational morphologies and NLP pipelines, endEndung is often used as a conceptual label for the part of a token that should be analyzed or stripped during segmentation, tagging, or lemmatization. Analysts may treat endings as separate morphemes rather than inert letter sequences, aiding schema development for multilingual processing.

See also: Endung, Morpheme, Affix, Suffix, Morphology, Inflection, Lemmatization. Examples: walk + ing, dog + s.